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A review by nawellponson
The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
5.0
While much of this reminded me of my hours of Child, Adolescent, and Educational Psychology courses (which I LOVED), I really feel that any teacher, parent, or anyone else comes into daily contact with our next generation(s) will find this totally engrossing. I went into it feeling like it was going to be primarily about how Gen Z (and Haidt lumps everyone born after ‘96 in this for his purposes) is anxious and how we (as older generations) can help them. And while he does discuss this, it’s much more encompassing of the larger issue: “The Rewiring of Childhood.” It’s really made me feel more empowered about letting my own children have the developmentally appropriate aspects of childhood I got to have, but that social media and other aspects of technology have stolen. And it’s made me feel less anxious about letting them have those aspects.