The Smartphone Kids Are Not All Right
Vložit
- čas přidán 26. 03. 2024
- Hanna talks to her child Jacob about the thing they've argued the most about: being on their phone.
Then, Hanna sits down with social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In his new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, Haidt argues there is a direct tie between the wide distribution of smartphones and a rise in depression, anxiety, and loneliness among young people.
After which, Hanna asks Jacob: Did I ruin your life?
Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub.
Subscribe to Radio Atlantic on your favorite podcast player: link.chtbl.com/radioatlantic-...
It's a cruel thing we've done to our children and ourselves. It's like nobody asked 20 years ago whether or not staring at a screen and communicating through it will help or hurt our biological needs for socializing. We need to be face to face, eye to eye, present with each other. The mindfulness workbook called 30 Days Without Social Media by Harper Daniels helped.
This was an excellent episode. Thank you for doing this.
As an autistic adult I would like to point out that analyzimg this specific case with an autistic youth makes the situation less universal because socializing and imterpersonal interaction is different for most off us autistic people.
It's true, and that should have been said. But interesting nonetheless!
we’ve managed microcomputers so poorly that they’ve made us all, somehow, stupider and less capable
Why blame the computer for your failures?
@@JoshJones-37334 not computers per se, but there's definitely a point to that logic. Many people who designed social media apps have been openly discussing how they were designed, on purpose, to make us addicted, depressed, unable to focus. If that's harmful enough for us adults, imagine what it does to a developing brain.
Oh woww
Not sure using an autistic kid as a barometer for a generation is a good sample, that being said my kid's screen time is highly regulated.
Note to self: invent a time machine, take out Hitler...then Steve Jobs
lol I used to read the Atlantic, it was fancy
I had a subscription too.
I can't understand how that kid makes it through a day without getting beat up.
huh... how do you know he doesn't get beaten up. he is also autistic so try be a bit more understanding
Most kids do have lives that are meaningless and hopeless. That’s part of growing up. Find your place. Get in line or get out of the way.
The problem is that the internet makes leading a purposeless life bearable, it keeps people always entertained. They can stay in a comfortable state of purposelessness
@@fritzstammen4535 I thought weed did that already
@@JoshJones-37334 they work in tandem
That's actually hard cope from growing up in a shithole environment, but go on outing yourself.
I'm glad I am an adult now where no one can limit my screen time.
This is seriously the least insightful comment I’ve seen on the web in months
So her neurodivergent son who spends most of his time online adopted they/them pronouns... It's like a parody of Gen Z
20 year old and still in her home? When I was 20…
When I was 20 the economy was fine and you could get an apartment and good car with 40 hours a week at $8 an hour.
Boomers and now gen x need to focus on themselves and how effed up they are instead of "the younger generation and their toys".
Social media isn’t just a “toy”
@@AlexJaneson correct.