Jonathan Haidt on "The Anxious Generation," how kids are growing up in the smartphone era
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Haidt's latest book "The Anxious Generation" is causing a buzz among parents, teachers and more. He joins "CBS Mornings" to talk about America's youth in the smartphone era and what parents can do to help reduce smartphone dependency.
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If the parents have a phone addiction too, it's a hard problem to solve.
Wrong question being asked. Should be asking: Why are there 12 grades in school, 13 if you count kindergarten? Children don't need to be herded into school buildings that long; there ain't that much to learn to make a productive life. There are many jobs that can be done by age 12 or 13 that don't require a quotable knowledge of Shakespeare, being able to name all of the planets in the universe, or calculating Algebra equations.
With smartphones, the adults finally got what they wanted. Quiet obedient kids. And now we are realizing that we were chasing the wrong goal this whole time. As an adult that grew up in the digital age, I feel that kids should stop being treated like second class citizens and be given more real world autonomy. It's just in the past, kids fought back against the (often unjust) rules, but kids now have devices as pacifiers.
Now that I am an adult and have more freedom. I'm often not taking advantage of that freedom because those restrictions became habits. I have to push myself to go outside and do things now. I have a habit of using devices all the time. And work is just enabling this behavior, since it's a computer job. I probably need a month of no electronics (not even work) to reset, but I don't know how.
Hey it’s a problem for us adults, too. Lots of grown folks suffer from chronic loneliness. I live in a building of singe childless people yet no one wants to talk or go for a cup of coffee. They just ask if you have an instagram. I find myself turning to RUclips and Reddit for supplement “interaction” which of course is toxic. The effect of the scrolling design has definitely done something to my ability to focus at work.
I realize these points are much less serious than the horrors of the World Wide Web being unleashed on our children 24/7. Just wanted to add my 2 cents to the discussion.
Not just Parents but Divorced Parents form a special problem...
Was able to curtail my kids (desktop) screen time early on. How?
By taking (enormous) extra effort to spend extra time with them. Doing things with them.
That is until their mother gave them smart phones at the ages of 8 and 10.
It was easier for her than spending time with them in the tangible world.
Everything changed from that day on. Screen time was no longer fixed. It was now mobile.
It went from "where are my skates" to "what is the wifi password at this skating rink".
My eldest had a passion for reading books. Within a few weeks that passion was just gone. Over.
Jonathan Haidt's effort to inform is vital towards developing the culture to respond to this situation.
Not just for children but PARENTS in particular.
Really Tony?
Kindergarteners and smartphones, that is just sick...truly disheartening
Lazy conservative parents
im glad i grew up in the 90's, we didnt have cell phones or social media.
Why is everyone always talking about kids?
WE are the ones who shouldn't always be on our phones.
I’m on my phone now.
Phones in Sunday School also 😥
I'd rather be part of the Greatest Generation, than the anxious Generation!😂😂
The choices of the older generations are *why* we're so anxious. Not sure why you're laughing? These are your voting choices come to fruition.
Young children, early teen’s don’t have the money to buy an expensive phone…..the PARENTS buy the phones. DON’T BUY THE KID A PHONE!!! It’s the PARENT’S fault!! SAY NO!!! 🤷🏼♂️🤔👎🏻
I'm nearing 40, and the last thing I want is some old guy telling me why I'm so anxious. I can't imagine those younger than me relating to this gasbag at all.
Why hate on a man who is genuinely concerned for the next generation of kids suffering tremendously from too much screen time? He’s a psychologist so he’s not just “some old guy” he’s a professional.
When you have a gynocentric culture lead by emotionalism of course people, kids especially, are going to be anxiety ridden....
@Chad_Max You should consider who you're taking advice from. Gynocentric? In what way is the world gynocentric? If you're qualifying women standing up for themselves as the world becoming gynocentric, that says a lot about you.
@@NeighborhoodOfBlue Gynocentrism has nothing to do with standing up for yourself, that's learned feminist tropes that you're parroting without actually thinking about and deconstructing them. I'm talking about a woman's innate evolutionary drive, studied by Freud and Jung, to divide the world into "infants" and "predators" and take the position that "infants" should always be protected from "predators." Then apply this standard to everything from business to politics. Everything from coddling children well past their childhood years to DE&I programs at companies reflect this gynocentrism. Here's the truth about life - you can't protect children or the underprivileged class from it by banning bullying, expanding social programs, or creating DE&I hiring standards. All you can do is teach children and the underprivileged class to take care of themselves so that they can fall back on their own strength and resilience to move forward in life. When you try to protect them, based on gynocentristic thinking, you just create an entity that's too fragile to deal with life and at best they have anxiety issues and at worst they become self destructive...
If your child's school isn't phone free, replace the administrators!
I agree with these rules and will do this with my kids but our lives are also so dependent on social media and connections through phones. I have not had a phone for 1 week and I have felt so lonely. I guess its takes time to detox for the instant connection. A part of me feels like I am missing out on stuff? I probably am not but basically its not just kids that need to be rewired its adults too.
Their heads are buried in the phone walking down the street ....along with adults ...... They have No sence of place or time ..... They aren't using their brains .....😊😅.. just my opinion... LOL
I don't know if I necessarily agree with the majority of this guy's statements. I do agree that young people and everyone else are much less sociable in person. I also agree that social media should be restricted for younger people. But saying that the root of all our social, depression and loneliness is because of smartphones? I think is more complex and much more than that. If theres one thing I would point out is the fact that spending valuable time with family is becoming less because the average parent is having to work more hours in this economy. You also have the abandonment of "social spaces" like shopping malls that young adults would hangout with or like "arcades" that no longer exist that was a hanging place for young people. Again I've seen this talking point of the current youth are problematic for someone who grew up in the 90s. There were the same similar discussions of kids in the 90s being problematic because of spending too much time watching tv and not outside. Not to mention your gameboy handleds that were being brought to class and were causing distraction or "loneliness".
It's a lack of 'third spaces'- places that aren't your home or work- which are low-cost or free. Those are the places people commune and socialize. The free outdoor spaces have been largely gotten rid of with the excuse being that homeless people spend too much time there. And even coffee shops are quick to usher you out if you've been there more than half an hour. Where do we go to socialize? I used to go to church, but am atheist now.
There used to be a time where we didn't have a choice but to see other people outside
Look at who raised them. Boomers and the ones behind them. Not all, but a good amount of boomers and few years behind them, it was all sex, drugs ,and rock and roll. Broken homes, multiple marriages and shack ups, latch key kids left to fend for themselves. Thrown in daycare, babysitters from not long after birth. Some with grandparents because of the neglect of the parents, or lack thereof. Schools dumbing them down, no morals, no God, no right and wrong, the music, music videos, entertainment Industry in general, social media. Phone addictions. I have heard from 20 somethings to teens, up to 30 45 years old how messed up their lives were. It's not their fault! The last greatest generation wwere the WW2 generation. Fought for this country, believe in God, morals, married and stay married to the same person to the day they passed. This country went downhill since the 60 s. All by design.
Really??? Boomers are to blame??? Boomers are Grandparents now… Boomers kids are grown and in their 30s and 40s and did NOT grow up addicted to a phone… Do your research… smart phone addiction started around 2008!
@@58kathleen re read what I wrote
Every School board trustee should read this book and set standards for a phone free school. The rest of the steps are up to the parents, but good advice IMO. Thanks for the courage to write this book.