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Addiction To Smart Phones

“If your kids went through puberty on a smartphone with social media, they came out different than human beings before” says Jonathan Haidt, author of the bestseller The Anxious Generation.

Kids are addicted to smartphones. Childhood is now phone-based instead of play-based, resulting in anxious and depressed kids.

“They know that life would be better if they didn’t spend five or six hours a day on social media. They know that, but they can’t help it” says Haidt.

Not all researcher agree. I challenge Haidt with the criticism.

Haidt responds in our full interview, and lays out his best advice to protect kids from smartphones. Here’s more from John Stossel.

Is Your Kid An Addict?

Do smartphones and social media wreck kids’ lives?

“Anxiety, depression, self-harm levels were pretty stable from the late 90s through 2010,” says psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation. “All of a sudden, the rates go up. Way up.”

But are phones the cause? I examine both sides in my newest video. Here’s more from John Stossel.

Social Media=America’s Collapse

Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and professor at NYU, tells Glenn Beck that some concerning changes in the country has led him to believe that social media is not just out of control, it could cause the collapse of America.

It’s the subject of a recent article that Haidt authored for Atlantic magazine in which he ponders whether America has just experienced a second Tower of Babel moment. Here’s the interview.

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