ANXIOUS GENERATION (Part 2): How to Raise Resilient Kids in the Digital Age

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🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Earlier this week, Jonathan Haidt joined us to discuss the crisis in youth mental health caused by smartphones and social media. Now he’s back to talk solutions. ✉️ We launched a Substack! Check it out now at bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com 🎙️ Enjoy this episode? Check out Rufus's related conversations with Will Storr and Anna Lembke

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:05.0	I'm Rufus Griscombe and this is the next big idea.
0:10.0	Today, part two of my conversation with Jonathan Hype. So, Earlier this week, Jonathan joined me on the show to share some not so good news.
0:42.3	Once you give your kid a smartphone and social media, it is going to not so
0:45.0	not so good news.
0:48.0	it is going to expand to fill not just every available moment.
0:48.0	It's going to keep pushing so that it takes more than every available moment.
0:52.0	Half of our kids, literally half of our kids,
0:54.6	say in surveys that they are online almost all the time.
0:59.6	If you miss that episode, you should go back and listen to it now.
1:03.6	But to recap, Jonathan's new book, The Anxious Generation, which is now in its seventh month
1:09.0	on the New York Times Best Other list, shows what many of us parents already know.
1:14.0	Smartphones and social media have led to record rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm,
1:20.0	and suicide among teens.
1:22.0	I ended that episode by saying the scale of this
1:26.1	problem is incredible, but not irreversible. And so today Jonathan and I are going to
1:31.6	dig into the solutions.
1:33.4	Because despite the heartbreaking harm social media is inflicting on Gen Z and increasingly Gen Alpha,
1:40.0	John remains optimistic that we can change course.
1:44.0	Here's how. I'm Tommer Coyne, LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer.
1:55.0	In my new podcast, Building One, I interview some of the best product builders out there.
1:59.3	People at the intersection of dreaming and building and learning. Together you and I will learn from
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