In his new book “The Anxious Generation“, Jonathan Haidt posits that the well-being of young people, and especially that of young girls, has decreased dramatically across the last fifteen years. The two major reasons for this decline, according to Haidt, are increased social media use and decreased play and interactions unsupervised by adults. In a nutshell, kids would be under-protected online and over-protected offline. Haidt goes on to suggest several solutions, such as smartphone bans in schools, increasing the age of social media use to 16, actually enforcing age limits, or increasing offline unregulated interactions (he co-started “Let Grow“).
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