Description: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epi... ITEM DESCRIPTION THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of 2024 •A Washington Post Notable Book • A New York Times Notable Book • The Goodreads Choice Award Nonfiction Book of the Year A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. “With tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.” —Shannon Carlin, TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood. Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life. FEATURES PAYMENT We accept payment by PayPal only Can accept all kind of credit cards. Please pay as soon as possible after winning an auction, as that will allow us to post your item to you sooner. Payment must be received within 3 business days of auction closing. Before buying, please make sure your PayPal and eBay address is correct. If not, please correct it before payment. We have confidence in our products, but if you are not fully satisfied please contact us within 30 days of purchase and you will get full refund of your money. Return the product in the same condition you received it. Please note - return shipping will be paid by the buyer.
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Brand: Penguin Publishing Group
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Name: Anxious Generation : How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Subject: Children's Studies, Web / Social Media, Social Aspects / General, Developmental / Child, Mental Health, Life Stages / Teenagers, Self-Management / Stress Management
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.7 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Subject Area: Family & Relationships, Computers, Social Science, Self-Help, Psychology
Author: Jonathan Haidt
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
