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Jonathan Haidt Smartphones vs. Smart Kids

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  • Not just self-reporting; as hospital admissions for self-harming increased as well as suicides
  • 67% increase in suicides in 2013; same year girls got on Instagram
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  • Taking risks is how kids get over anxiety
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  • When adults stop trusting each other with their children, its a disaster
    • Safety above everything, emotional development etc..
  • Parenting time is way up
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  • World got much safer, and parents decided to let children out even later
  • Children aren’t being allowed to learn conflict resolution
  • Cycle of Incompetence
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  • Kids were already social distanced BEFORE Covid due to Social Media
  • Five Foundational Harms
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  • Additional Harms to Girls
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  • Additional Harms to Boys
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  • Four norms to escape collective action problems
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  • Scores in school dropped after introduction of smart phones
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  • Have to give them back a Play Based Childhood
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  • letgrow.org
  • Prisoners have more outside time than children as young as First grade
  • Play groups on Friday; then they’ll want to play together on the weekend too
  • Constructivedialogue.org
  • Secular liberal girls are the worst hit

Sherry Turkle Quote

“We turn away from each other and toward our phones.  We are forever elsewhere.”

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