Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and professor of ethical leadership at NYU, joins Jordan Klepper to discuss his latest best-selling book “The Anxious Generation,” which theorizes how the “rewiring” of childhood may be impacting young people’s mental health.
Something happened to kids born after 1994? Absolutely!
ReplyWidespread use of social media exploded when people born after 1994 were 16 years old. Being a teenager is hard enough, but being a teenager with the age of smart phones and social media brings it to a whole level. These kids, and now younger adults, had it way worse than my generation did.
I’m at the end of Gen X, and I am exceedingly grateful that by the time smartphones and social media emerged I was already out of university and building my career.
I barely remember the pre-cell phone era. Where am I? Where are my friends?
ReplyLived two houses from beach life was awesome as a child.
ReplyI think a conservative snuck onto the show. 😄
ReplyPeople were over protected or outright neglected.
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ReplyWhile still under eight, our favourite place to play was a lake in an abandoned stone quarry. We’d play there all day, a couple of miles from home. My parents never even asked where we’d been so long as we got home for dinner. Nobody died. We got scrapes and bruised knees and elbows, occasionally fell in the water. I could never imagine parents being so hands-off today.
ReplyInternet and smart phones
ReplyI think part of the increased conflict all around is a byproduct of a lesser focus on manners.
Manners… Suppress behaviors that are naturally provocative and likely to lead to conflict.
If you remove them then people naturally press each other’s buttons more.
ReplyIt may be more practical to teach the kids stoicism / self-reflection / standards.
Reducing smart phone use is no doubt fine, but social alienation is less fine.
And we can’t, as Americans, force other people to raise their kids differently in a collective way… Culturally, we’re just not suited to forcing people to conform (even to things that are suspected as being likely positive)
ReplyJonathan Haidt really has a clue, we’re losing a generation, and the next.. and….
ReplyWe had challenges, we hurt ourselves and bled sometimes…. but we didn’t vanish into transistors.
It almost seems like us boomers were the last human generation.
As a substitute teacher who loved school and got her 1st cellphone in her twenties, I can attest to the reduced intellect and higher anxiety of the younger generations. They have a reduced sense of curiosity and lack imagination as well, an impact that will reap very interesting results in 10 to 20 years.🔍🤔😐
ReplyBorn in 2000… I agree that something 100% happened from 2012-2013. But from 2004-2010 I was still ridding my bike and playing outside everyday as a kid.
ReplyExcellent
ReplyEvery next big thing that will change the world–ie. the internet– it just puts us all more under the control and manipulation of the powers that be. Try to be principled with tech and tell a prospective employer that you don’t have a cell phone. They will laugh and move along. Society will not let us resist tech anymore… no wonder we are tech addicted at all ages.
ReplyK. This is making me anxious. Gotta jump.
ReplyI don’t think he takes into account how much information kids consume these days and what little hope that leaves them for the future. (Especially when he mentioned the trickle up economy that’s doing great) Yes what he states can be a factor but for many his concerns are only a side issue.
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ReplyJonathan Haidt is such an important thinker for our time.
ReplyWhy does a kid even need social media before. They literally go to the place everyday with everyone thry know? Im not giving my kid a phone before high school either. That seems pretty simple to me
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