The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt: A Clear-Eyed Review, Key Takeaways, and a Practical Guide for Parents in the Smartphone Era
If you’ve felt a quiet alarm bell ring every time your child disappears behind a screen, you’re not imagining it. Over the last decade, rates of teen anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide have surged—especially among girls—and it all seemed to accelerate right around the early 2010s. That’s the starting point for social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s…