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The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt is a nonfiction book that discusses the impact of the use of smart phones on teenagers. He discusses why children now have many mental disorders such as anxiety and depression. The author links these current disorders to the use of smart phones and other digital devices that are so prevalent in our current society. Later on in the book he gives some methods and action that could possibly solve the problem he sees.
The author discusses the history of the use of digital devices, especially smart phone. He also discusses the rise of the over protection of parents that keeps children closer to home than previous generations. He sites the lack of a “play based childhood” and the rise of a “digital based childhood” as the beginning of the problem he sees. He states in one section of his book that beginning with Generation Z, children were unable to form a permanent community of their peers, or “put roots into real world situations” as they are continually in the digital world. The author considers the rapid transformation of group dynamics he sees as “the great rewiring of childhood” and gives information on how and why today’s children are exploited by social media companies and their apps causing them to be addicted to them.
The author later on gives some methods and actions on how to solve this problem, how to have a more “play based” childhood and not spend so much time on in the digital world. He goes over what governments and technology companies, schools, and parents can do to lessen their children’s use of smart phones and other devices and decrease the over protection of children in the “real world” letting them explore and more experience.
The Anxious Generation is a must read for any adult who is concerned about children who are stuck in the digital world being influenced by people they have not and will not meet. This book is for any adult that wants a child to have more real world experience and just be a child and play.
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt is a nonfiction book that discusses the impact of the use of smart phones on teenagers. He discusses why children now have many mental disorders such as anxiety and depression. The author links these current disorders to the use of smart phones and other digital devices that are so prevalent in our current society. Later on in the book he gives some methods and action that could possibly solve the problem he sees.
The author discusses the history of the use of digital devices, especially smart phone. He also discusses the rise of the over protection of parents that keeps children closer to home than previous generations. He sites the lack of a “play based childhood” and the rise of a “digital based childhood” as the beginning of the problem he sees. He states in one section of his book that beginning with Generation Z, children were unable to form a permanent community of their peers, or “put roots into real world situations” as they are continually in the digital world. The author considers the rapid transformation of group dynamics he sees as “the great rewiring of childhood” and gives information on how and why today’s children are exploited by social media companies and their apps causing them to be addicted to them.
The author later on gives some methods and actions on how to solve this problem, how to have a more “play based” childhood and not spend so much time on in the digital world. He goes over what governments and technology companies, schools, and parents can do to lessen their children’s use of smart phones and other devices and decrease the over protection of children in the “real world” letting them explore and more experience.
The Anxious Generation is a must read for any adult who is concerned about children who are stuck in the digital world being influenced by people they have not and will not meet. This book is for any adult that wants a child to have more real world experience and just be a child and play.