1975...girl....I went out to the farm of our neighbours with my best friend when I was between 4 and 5.

Computers are not boogeymen. They are tools, which like any other type, can be misused and abused. Computers are the best research and learning tool. You have an entire library at your fingertips. No one's fault but your own for lack of self-control. Ridiculous to blame computers for failed culture and parenting: Teens have to be shown that computers are extensions of human capacity, not a glorified boob tube.

Good thinker.

Schools should allow flip phones only. That way parents can still feel in contact, but all smartphone and smart watches distractions are unavailable at school.

Haidt skews his figures by restricting the scope of his presentation to figures that go back no further than the year 2000 to make it look as if there is a clear connection between smartphones and social media and the uptick reported depression and self-harm. In the 1980's and 1990's the recorded rates of reported youth depression and self-harm were actually higher at their peak than they are now. All of this long before modern social media and smartphones even existed. And if you go back even further than that you find other peaks that are almost as high but bear in mind some of them are likely to be even higher than the official figures because in the early 20th Century depression and self-harm rates for groups such as blacks or immigrants were very likely not much figured into those studies. As for suicide, Haidt never tells you that suicide rates remained stable or regressed in other first world countries with access to social media, or that US suicide rates are almost at any even level with those of the 1950s. Gee, that whole "we are living in a time of unprecedented teen depression and self-harm" claim of Jonathan Haidt's is suddenly not looking so unprecedented now, is it?

Pathetic. Another prime example (as if we really needed one) as to how and why religion poisons everything.

By the way theres another element about being outside. I dont let my kids outside for a VERY specific reason. The suburban paradigm has made roads so insanely dangerous that the number one thing that is likely to kill my kids is a flippin SUV. With speeding at an all time high, road widths broader than ever, and walkability at an all time low...omg no way am I letting my kids out in that environment. NO. Tablets are banned in our house. They do not have phones. They know how to use them. They do have gaming PCs I built for them but they have strict rules. No free to play games, no predatory heavily monetized games, no online games unless they're cooperative with family only. So almost all the games they play are single player games built around a narrative or objective, or some kind of tactics or strategy game. We also play a lot of games tabletop-wise. Board games, card games, RPGs, wargames, etc.

It is shocking that very few people are addressing this problem. NO, the mental health of our population does not come after your ROI, what's the point of making money in a collapsing system. No, the mental health of our children is not to be sold to the highest bidder! We HAVE to as a society step up and solve this epidemic of a degrading civilization that is cannabilizing itself out of existence in a reckless pursuit of profit. I personally am trying to do my part, I worked on developing an app that serves as the "Digital portal back into real life". This motivates people to get out of their comfort zone and find someone new to meet face-to-face within 5 minutes and try to socialize and work on their social skills. It's very hard to go against the norm and to fight a bad trend. But we will keep working hard on the project and hope to make a difference.

Excellent presentation. Thanks for all the important information he give to us.

I'm sorry, I got taken out by the "millennials went through puberty with flip phones, that's why they're okay". Really? Are millennials okay???

17:56 Isn't that video satire tho?

They studied this. They knew what they were doing. None of this was a coincidence. :)

Do you think attorneys got more plentiful in the 90's. And we started suing instead of taking responsibility for life's mishaps?

What powerful insights. RIP

Why did she say thank god she has a boy 😭 did she not watch the part about sons?

Social media should never be used by young people especially girls 16 under in the first place

Good to see Jeb Bush getting out! That's him in the front row with the glasses, btw.

00:08:00 in, discussing risks.... every musician had to battle stage fright, and once we did: WHAT A THRILL

Parents didn't cause this.Profit did.Screens generate consumption.

You have to take into account that starting boys later in real school increases the cost of child care. For the families that might need it most this might not be an option.

My daughter is now 20, and beginning the healing journey of so much pain caused by the phone. She almost didn’t make it, but that’s another story… I saw so many of these things happening in my tiny world, and nobody really being able to articulate or acknowledge just how deep the damage was going and how out of control it all got so quickly. Reading your book, especially the closing comments, brought me to tears. As much as I have enjoyed the new chapter in our life, this was unhealed trauma for me. These tears were related to how helpless I felt as a father and how thankful I am for your work. Thank you so much Jonathan and team!

we were out hanging at 3 lol

I bieve that riskless play is directly corelated to decline in definition of gender - especially in young boys that start identifying as girls during or just before puberty. When you have boys that dont get excited scared in dangerous situations boys that dont fight each other THERE IS NO NEED FOR KIDS BRAIN TO TRIHGER ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS IN CHARGE OF SECRETION OF MALE HORMONES. Basicaly we are mentaly castrating young boys.

Brilliant.

Terrible music over such an important topic.

Yep no phones for the under 16.....why????

Maybe it's because it's a man ' s world and you still see the perfect body woman in movie/ not so good looking men. The phone sure help me to tell you what I think now.

The schools could never "not supervise" for fear of lawsuits and bullshit from parents. Recess has been lost to "standardized testing" and federal laws that decide what and how teachers teach down to the minute.

And here, I'm the parent who gets all the weird looks because my kids are the crazy ones everywhere we go.

This is depressing.

100% TRUE today's agenda pushers weather it be self interest or other will say no no it's not true, Those are the people with deeper issues!

5 minutes of apologizing to women before he even starts

what the heck is she saying???? abs no clue after 2 hrs.

As 3rd grade teacher I have used the Let Grow curriculum this year and have been BLOWN AWAY by it. It is a highlight for the kids ever month, and the sharing of the stories of the things that have done independently is so empowering.

You can blame phones if you want, but that doesn't change the fact that there's nothing worth committing to, nothing worth buying into and therfore no hope for the future. Nothing but being a pirate pays off in this society. You can take all the phones away, but it wont give people hope or fix our communities. Without hope for the future, you can have all the studies on the youth you want, but nothing is getting better until there is a hope that things can get better. And as long as we keep paying our bullies and neglecting to take our communities into our own hands, it's all moot. Let them drown in their screens, they'll never be anything more than cattle anyway. Just like we are.

Social media has now become hypnotical media. The mindfulness workbook called 30 Days Without Social Media by Harper Daniels was helpful, totally recommend it for taking a break from social media.

"When adults stop trusting each other with their kids, disaster" This was something I saw after living in Spain. If you go to anplaypark or plaza where kids are playing, the kids are playing together, the adults are all sitting somewhere over there, talking, having a coffee etc, and they are all collectively keeping an eye and trusting each other to do the same. And if you're in a queue and the kid with his mum in front of you smiles or makes a face at you and you respond in kind, the parent smiles at you too, rather than thinking you're some perv/kidnapper.

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Taking a break from social media is a must. Think of all the time in people's lives that is wasted scrolling and liking and just staring at videos, memes, strangers talking, etc. I like the mindfulness workbook called 30 Days Without Social Media by Harper Daniels, it goes good with Jonathan's book I believe.

I want there to be an Opera, "Richrd Reev" with a ballet corps, an artists troupe, an meldey of musicians and some film people.

Public policy problem = culturral probklem

I'm getting sick of Haidt. He's everywhere right now using fearmongering to get people to buy his book. So, yes this is an issue, but buyer beware. He's been trying to prove his hypothesis for years, and as he even admits, correlation is still not causation. He is not doing the differential required to rule out other variables for childhood anxiety and depression. And there are many. By making social media the boogie man, he is diverting attention away from the stress factors that lead kids to their phones in the first place. And those underlying issues need to be addressed. I see hundreds of kids a year as a psychologist diagnostician and I have only encountered a handful of kids who spend 9 hours a day on a device. But Haidt calls it an epidemic, blaming everything from suicide and the "collapse of mental health" on phones. Kids come to my practice when they aren't coping with life, and I survey their screen time. What I see are kids who are in sports, music, theater, debate, cheer, camps, clubs, STEM, art etc. Kids are busy with a lot of healthy activity (sometimes too much) and very few of the most anxious of them are ever on a device all day. I also see kids who are addicted to media, but there are so many variables impacting them, and the ones who are glued to their phones are seeking to numb themselves from other sources of stress. (If it wasn't a phone it would be something else.) The education systems are archaic (not teachers - but systems), they have fewer options to learn a trade, they have more obstacles to attending college, they see mass shootings, excessive cruelty in popular music, movies and books (don't get me started on YA lit), parents enduring economic stress, global warming threats, erosion of human rights and civil rights, they are absorbing plastic into their bodies at alarming rates... so many variables...Do you know what else happened in 2010? A cultural divide broke wide open in this country through a platform for open hate speech and poisonous grievance, the normalizing of bullying, and a wealth gap wider than ever in history. Kids aren't getting this from phones, but from us, the adults. If we want to know why kids are stressed, we need to take a look at ourselves as adults and ask what kind of world we are creating for our children. The problem is so much bigger than phones. And taking them away is not going to solve the problem. Teaching them media literacy will be a good start. But encouraging positive social platforms is another. I should just write my own damn book. And stop social psychologizing all over us Haidt, until you do your due dilligence.

So many excellent points here. WOW.

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My fondest memory in elementary school was skateboarding around with a handball going to find different giant walls to play with friends until the sun set. My fondest middle school memory was learning how to do pull-ups and playing basketball with friends. My fondest high school memory was walking 3 miles every morning with my sister and then walking back home. It took about an hour one-way, but I remember we would talk about everything together. The most fun were the times we got in trouble!

One of the best and most important talks I’ve ever witnessed

Flip phones, Brick phones (Nokia), and pagers.

The opening failed almost completely. Luckily, CC was there to save us again. He is missed!

Is this speaker one of the co-authors of The Coddling of the American Mind?

Not just a imbalance in teachers, but psychology also. The lack of support networks and systems. When the statistics show they are needed. Also prison statistics and populations. Male vs female populations and abuse statistics. Lesbian vs gay abuse rates. Also the disparity in male vs female sentences for the same crimes. Child care to probability of problems later on like prison. Couples do best, single males next, single females had the highest probability of a kid getting into trouble later on. Also things like abuse shelters need to be made. The statistics support such.