Friday, November 14, 2025

Why So Many Kids Are Not OK

 

                                                      (Empire Beach sunset (Michigan))

Jonathan Haidt's book The Coddling of the American Mind was so good I read it twice. And refer to it often.

Haidt's recent book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, came out in March 2024. Haidt makes a powerful case that the shift from play-based to phone-based childhoods is wreaking havoc on mental health and social development.

Some of you already know this, right? 


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Listen to Russell Moore's interview with Haidt HERE.