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How Phones Are Making Parents the Anxious Generation
Smartphones are trust blockers for parents
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Lenore Skenazy
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Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World
Advice from the author of Childhood Unplugged
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Katherine Johnson Martinko
41
Treating Childhood Anxiety with a Mega-Dose of Independence
What therapists can do to help restore the play-based childhood
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Camilo Ortiz
51
Aren’t You Lonely?
Friendship has become another joyless thing to do on a screen
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Freya India
121
A Debate on the Strengths, Limitations, Uses and Misuses of the Gallup World Poll
Gallup researchers respond to "Is the Gallup World Poll Reliable?" Blanchflower responds back.
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David Blanchflower
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Rajesh Srinivasan
, and 
Jonathan T. Rothwell
4
A Gen Z Perspective on Why We Must Pass the Kids Online Safety Act
Social media holds immense promise to connect us. But to reap the benefits, we need to regulate it first.
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Sam Hiner
50

June 2024

How Schools Can Help End The Phone-Based Childhood
Five lessons for secular schools, from our experience in Jewish Day Schools
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Caroline Bryk
34
How has mental health changed across demographic groups since 2010?
If social media is uniquely beneficial to adolescents in marginalized communities, we might expect to see their rates of anxiety and depression increase…
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Jean M. Twenge
50
Big News: The Surgeon General Calls for a Warning Label on Social Media
Dr. Murthy is right. The evidence of widespread harm to adolescents is now strong.
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Jon Haidt
 and 
Zach Rausch
90
Is The Gallup World Poll Reliable?
The way some researchers use the GWP can explain why they fail to find effects of digital technology on youth mental health
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David Blanchflower
6
Neighborhoods that Nurture: Why The Play-Based Childhood Requires More Than Just Putting Down the Phone
It's easier to create “play-based childhoods” if we can simultaneously create vibrant “community-based childhoods” to support them.
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Seth Kaplan
47
The Great Deterioration of Local Community Was A Major Driver of The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood
Kids growing up in close-knit communities where the social ties are thick are more protected from the harms of the phone-based childhood.
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Zach Rausch
95
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