The 12 Books of Christmas | The Anxious Generation: Jonathan Haidt on How Smartphones Rewired Childhood
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Layla Ishmael. Our third pick of the year is an event we staged in April with best-selling author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. He is the author of numerous books including The Righteous Mind and the Coddling of the American Mind.
He was live on stage earlier this year to talk about his latest book, The Anxious Generation, How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness, which is an urgent investigation into the crisis of youth mental health today. Joining him to discuss it all is BBC journalist and broadcaster Sarah Montagu. Thank you so much and what a treat to be here. Now, almost everywhere you turn at the moment you will see, hear, read discussions about whether we should be getting our children off social media and off phones. Much of it, of course, driven by this man.
His book, The Anxious Generation, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for the past four weeks. He argues that a whole generation has been damaged by growing up with unrestricted access to social media and to an adult online world, but also by being so over-protected and over-parented. that it's a generation of young adults unable to cope with the rigours of normal life. His book, The Anxious Generation, How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness may be doing so well because he is tapping into something in society, a concern, a very widely held belief among parents that there is something going wrong.
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