The Smartphone Kids Are Not All Right

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3 ай бұрын

Hanna talks to her child Jacob about the thing they've argued the most about: being on their phone.
Then, Hanna sits down with social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In his new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, Haidt argues there is a direct tie between the wide distribution of smartphones and a rise in depression, anxiety, and loneliness among young people.
After which, Hanna asks Jacob: Did I ruin your life?
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@theotherway1639 3 ай бұрын

It's a cruel thing we've done to our children and ourselves. It's like nobody asked 20 years ago whether or not staring at a screen and communicating through it will help or hurt our biological needs for socializing. We need to be face to face, eye to eye, present with each other. The mindfulness workbook called 30 Days Without Social Media by Harper Daniels helped.

@poplifemedia Ай бұрын

This was an excellent episode. Thank you for doing this.

@WeeWeeJumbo 3 ай бұрын

we’ve managed microcomputers so poorly that they’ve made us all, somehow, stupider and less capable

@JoshJones-37334 3 ай бұрын

Why blame the computer for your failures?

@gmenezesdea 3 ай бұрын

@@JoshJones-37334 not computers per se, but there's definitely a point to that logic. Many people who designed social media apps have been openly discussing how they were designed, on purpose, to make us addicted, depressed, unable to focus. If that's harmful enough for us adults, imagine what it does to a developing brain.

@Sad_bumper_sticker. 3 ай бұрын

As an autistic adult I would like to point out that analyzimg this specific case with an autistic youth makes the situation less universal because socializing and imterpersonal interaction is different for most off us autistic people.

@jcfmsantos1 3 ай бұрын

It's true, and that should have been said. But interesting nonetheless!

@kalintraykov7034 2 ай бұрын

Oh woww

@jameshooker5939 3 ай бұрын

Not sure using an autistic kid as a barometer for a generation is a good sample, that being said my kid's screen time is highly regulated.

@WMA31780 3 ай бұрын

lol I used to read the Atlantic, it was fancy

@JoshJones-37334 3 ай бұрын

I had a subscription too.

@TheFatblob25 3 ай бұрын

Note to self: invent a time machine, take out Hitler...then Steve Jobs

@JoshJones-37334 3 ай бұрын

Most kids do have lives that are meaningless and hopeless. That’s part of growing up. Find your place. Get in line or get out of the way.

@fritzstammen4535 3 ай бұрын

The problem is that the internet makes leading a purposeless life bearable, it keeps people always entertained. They can stay in a comfortable state of purposelessness

@JoshJones-37334 3 ай бұрын

@@fritzstammen4535 I thought weed did that already

@fritzstammen4535 3 ай бұрын

@@JoshJones-37334 they work in tandem

@sieda666 3 ай бұрын

That's actually hard cope from growing up in a shithole environment, but go on outing yourself.