I’m so thankful for your work and research. I a middle school counselor and HS coach. The amount of anxiety relating to the smart phone is insane! In our school district we’ve implemented a lot of your ideas like banning phones. It’s been great!
Quebec's full cellphone ban in schools, effective this fall, covers the entire day including breaks. Education Minister Bernard Drainville's announcement aligns with evidence that phones distract from learning. That's real progress, though federal action on social media lags provinces.
Hi Jon. Your work is inspirational. Congratulations. I’ve been profoundly concerned about tech and its impact on children and young people for a while. I am considering trying to lobby our national government for a step change of policy in the UK. Can you offer any advice? I appreciate this just be too much as you’re so engaged in your own nation’s politics. Thanks again for all your doing. Adrian
I have observed (and wrote about) the promotion of estrangement as self-care and empowerment for kids, and observed many social media influencers suggest adult children cut their parents off. Graphics can be found on social media that say things like, "You don't owe your parents anything" with "anything" highlighted in yellow.
Perhaps there is "real progress for kids", but maybe not so much for adult children as my observations, personally and with other parents I know, show a movement in the opposite direction as progress.
I would love to see future articles address the disturbing promotion of estrangement occuring on social media. Thank you.
The upcoming year will truly be brimming with positive changes when the following reminders are heeded by people of all ages: Without people, tech is a paperweight. Scrolling on phones for hours or having their phones face down on a table so they won't look at them shows lack of personal discipline and commonsense and this can only be remedied by people, same for using or not using social media. Another world-changing occurrence will come when psychologists, social scientists and journalists routinely include people with disabilities in their studies and research. Excitement reigns supreme for people with disabilities for the tech advances of the new year, see the link below for a small taste of what has already occurred. Happy tech New Year, everybody! https://www.blindstreet.com/how-ai-revolutionizing-everyday-living-blind-people/
Notice the most popular post was about the long overdue pushback of the obvious and deliberate mass trauma of everyone decent by internet porn. Hopefully 2026 is the year we put pornographers and their enablers in jail where they belong. Modern internet porn is terrorism.
I’m so thankful for your work and research. I a middle school counselor and HS coach. The amount of anxiety relating to the smart phone is insane! In our school district we’ve implemented a lot of your ideas like banning phones. It’s been great!
Quebec's full cellphone ban in schools, effective this fall, covers the entire day including breaks. Education Minister Bernard Drainville's announcement aligns with evidence that phones distract from learning. That's real progress, though federal action on social media lags provinces.
Love this roundup! Your conversation with Trevor Noah was one of my favourite this year.
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Your work is amazing! Very glad for its impact!
Any idea if it's been taken up in Germany anywhere?
Hi Jon. Your work is inspirational. Congratulations. I’ve been profoundly concerned about tech and its impact on children and young people for a while. I am considering trying to lobby our national government for a step change of policy in the UK. Can you offer any advice? I appreciate this just be too much as you’re so engaged in your own nation’s politics. Thanks again for all your doing. Adrian
Thank you for this excellent overview.
I have observed (and wrote about) the promotion of estrangement as self-care and empowerment for kids, and observed many social media influencers suggest adult children cut their parents off. Graphics can be found on social media that say things like, "You don't owe your parents anything" with "anything" highlighted in yellow.
Perhaps there is "real progress for kids", but maybe not so much for adult children as my observations, personally and with other parents I know, show a movement in the opposite direction as progress.
I would love to see future articles address the disturbing promotion of estrangement occuring on social media. Thank you.
As of March 2026, legislation mandating age assurance for services posing risks to children, such as social networks, will be in effect in Brazil
The upcoming year will truly be brimming with positive changes when the following reminders are heeded by people of all ages: Without people, tech is a paperweight. Scrolling on phones for hours or having their phones face down on a table so they won't look at them shows lack of personal discipline and commonsense and this can only be remedied by people, same for using or not using social media. Another world-changing occurrence will come when psychologists, social scientists and journalists routinely include people with disabilities in their studies and research. Excitement reigns supreme for people with disabilities for the tech advances of the new year, see the link below for a small taste of what has already occurred. Happy tech New Year, everybody! https://www.blindstreet.com/how-ai-revolutionizing-everyday-living-blind-people/
Notice the most popular post was about the long overdue pushback of the obvious and deliberate mass trauma of everyone decent by internet porn. Hopefully 2026 is the year we put pornographers and their enablers in jail where they belong. Modern internet porn is terrorism.