Jonathan Haidt: Kids Should Put Down the Phones and Take More Risks
When I was a kid, childhood meant playing on the street, riding my bike, hanging out with friends. Most kids now experience a different childhood. Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book, The Anxious Generation, talks about that. He calls it “a tragedy in two acts.” “Act One, we lose the play-based childhood. We stop letting kids run around outside. We’re too afraid they’ll get abducted.…We get gradual loss of play from the ’90s through the early 2010s.…That sets kids up […]
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