Author
Jonathan Haidt
We've read and reviewed Jonathan Haidt's parenting and mental health book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness on Book of the Day, scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
by Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation, a work of parenting and mental-health nonfiction, argues that the shift from a play-based childhood to a phone-based one explains the surge in teen anxiety and depression, and backs it with enough data that even skeptics have to engage with it.