Four New Norms to Save Gen Z Why Overprotective Parenting Produced the Most Fragile Generation in Modern History

ISBN: 978-1-972886-10-6

Book Description 
THE GREAT REWIRING OF CHILDHOOD: In just five years, between 2010 and 2015, the mental health of adolescents across the developed world collapsed. Jonathan Haidt pinpoints the single variable that changed everything: the smartphone.

OVERPROTECTED HERE, UNDERPROTECTED THERE: Parents track their children's every move in the real world while handing them unrestricted access to the most powerful attention-harvesting machines ever invented. This book names the paradox and tells you how to fix it.

FOUR NEW NORMS THAT ACTUALLY WORK: No smartphone before high school. No social media before 16. Phone-free schools. More independence and free play in the real world. Backed by data, designed for collective action.

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You are not a bad parent. You were handed a technology no generation has ever faced, without a manual, without warning, and without any collective agreement on what to do about it.

Jonathan Haidt understands this. The NYU social psychologist and author of The Righteous Mind has spent years tracking a phenomenon that should alarm every parent and educator alive: starting around 2012, the mental health of adolescents across the Western world fell off a cliff. Anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicidality surged by 50 to 150