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4. The High Cost of a Phone-Based Childhood
The consequences are severe. This represents an abdication of mentorship that parents owe their children and that kids desperately need. We all sign up for this task when we bring children into the world. We must raise them, like it or not. It’s the unquittable job. Sure, some deadbeat parents have always checked out in ways that horrify mainstream... See more
Katherine Johnson Martinko • It's the Adults, Not the Kids!
is the world in which Gen Z was raised. It was a world in which adults, schools, and other institutions worked together to teach children that the world is dangerous, and to prevent them from experiencing the risks, conflicts, and thrills that their experience-expectant brains needed to overcome anxiety and set their default mental state to discove
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Yglesias argues that the progressive politics of the 2010s encouraged progressives to think of everything in catastrophic terms, making them less happy. In essence, he sees teenagers as having been prodded by political and media figures into adopting the same kind of doomer worldview espoused by people like Taylor Lorenz.
Noah Smith • Honestly, it's probably the phones
Kids are no longer allowed to drop out of school in order to work, and the world now requires more and more schooling to succeed. What’s more, parents feel a great need to protect their children. Many, especially in the middle class, have waited forever to have them. They fear for their physical safety and economic security.