The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


The Anxious Generation is as simple as academically-informed books go, which is a strength given the gravity of the message. Haidt gives substance to ideas that feel intuitively correct: that a phone-based childhood impedes healthy child development. He also dedicates a considerable portion of the book to policy recommendations to make his ideas actionable at the community level. Although some recommendations on overprotection may be risky in some urban areas, I appreciated that the risks of overprotection and those of a phone-based childhood were addressed together. A must-read in this era.



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