Month: July 2024

I recently finished the audio version of Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation. It is challenging to review an audiobook since I cannot refer to a particular page with all my highlights, but I will share some of the book's key themes. Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist from New York University, writes engagingly and uses numerous charts and statistics to trace the mental health struggles of Gen Z. The book is divided into three sections: The Decline of Play-Based Childhood, The Rise of Phone-Based Childhood, and Collective Action for a Healthier Childhood. He begins the book by discussing how childhood has changed over the last few decades. Childhood has slowly changed from a play-based childhood to a phone-based childhood. The early 2010s were a critical period that coincided with the rise of social media and many kids having cell phones. He quotes statistics that show there is a rise in mental health struggles among adolescents, with anxiety, depression, suicide, and other...