blooming edelweiss

In his book The Anxious Generation , social psychologist Jonathan Haidt presents facts regarding the widespread epidemic of adolescent mental illness that simultaneously affected many countries. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including the reasons why play and self-discovery are essential for kids to grow up to be capable, successful people. In the early 2010s, the "phone-based childhood" eventually replaced the "play-based childhood."  He lays out over a dozen ways that this "great rewiring of childhood" has hampered kids' social and neurological growth.  The concept of this book fits with my mentality as a mother and provides a solution to my uneasiness in this online setting. I believe it is critical to delay handing phones to my daughters and instead allow them to explore and play like normal children. The fact that girls are more adversely affected by social media than boys makes it much worse. This book provides a foundation for ...