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The Anxious Generation

March 26, 2024 · Penguin Random House (Penguin Press) · Read the original ↗

Haidt's book-length case that the 'great rewiring' of childhood around phones drove the adolescent mental-health collapse — a #1 bestseller that put a social psychologist at the center of school-board and legislative debates worldwide.

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The defining book of the kids-and-screens era is about the mind. The body half of the same story — posture, breath, vision, Tech Posture Syndrome — is the half Look Up was written to tell.
The Look Up View: AGREE WITH CARE
The Look Up view
The case that moved the world is built on association and argued hard; we agree on the rewiring's cost — and add the missing half: the body that has to live in it.
●●●  Association — pattern, not proof of cause · For: Kids
☀ Use it — Give this book to one parent this month. It's the conversation-opener the whole movement keeps citing — and it sets up the body half of the story.

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