THE ANXIOUS GENERATION
by Jonathan Haidt
Nonfiction · 1100L · 2024
Why we'd hand it over
Essential parental reading if you're anxious about your teen's phone use, but Haidt's framing—that smartphone adoption is the primary culprit—oversimplifies; read alongside critiques (Jean Twenge's response, social scientists on confounds) to avoid single-cause thinking.
What parents said
Giving the phone and having access to the internet and social media is horrible for young minds.