Episode 025 - The Anxious Generation (Book Review)

Episode 25 is an honest conversation surrounding The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. We highly recommend this book for parents of teens and tweens even though it completely scared the bleep out of us! Also check out the author's companion video Smartphones vs Kids. Jonathan Haidt does an amazing job breaking down why we are where we are. The 90's gave us personal computers and the internet. 2010 gave us the first iPhone. In 2012, Facebook acquired Instagram. The front facing camera then led to the selfie craze. These pivotal moments opened the door to losing real face to face moments with screens as well as adding a level of stress, unrealistic expectations and ultimately depression for a significant percentage of our youth population. Then the pandemic shattered our sense of reality and has now created a generation of IPAD / YouTube kids (skibidi toilet?). Social media providers know how to keep our kids locked in to the screen using algorithms and gamification. How can parents deal with this when we are also locked in? Time to look up and recognize the importance of social interaction in the real world, not our screens. Not to say they are a bad tool ... they are a great tool with endless possibilities. Teaching our kids how to turn them off is ballgame. For us, it really comes down to REAL social experiences.

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