Extra: 'Anxious Generation' Author Jonathan Haidt On Cell Phones, Playing Outside And Raising Happy Kids

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🗓️ 6 September 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Kids today are reporting higher levels of stress and anxiety than ever before, with many experts attributing this to constant screen time and social media exposure. In response, lawmakers and schools nationwide are experimenting with policies such as banning cell phones in the classroom and prohibiting social media use for teens. Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University and author of "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness," has been warning parents and policymakers for years about the harmful effects of cell phones and screen time. Haidt recently joined host Lisa Brady on the FOX News Rundown to analyze how the digital age may be reshaping childhood and what steps we can take right now to address this crisis. He also discusses the risks of requiring mental health screenings in schools, which Illinois plans to implement next school year, and the importance of encouraging children to simply go outside and play. We often have to cut interviews short during the week, but we thought you might like to hear the full conversation. Today on Fox News Rundown Extra, we will share our entire interview with author Jonathan Haidt, allowing you to hear even more of his insights on how to raise children in this new world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.6	This is the Fox News Rundown Extra.
1:06.5	And Lisa Brady.
1:08.1	Childhood is being rewired.
1:13.1	That's a warning in a new book that calls for collective action to stop a mental illness epidemic. And it raises questions about the bigger picture,
1:19.1	with social media and the first cell phone generations urging a shift back to play-based childhood.
1:24.9	So we went to the source, Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York
1:29.4	University, and author of The Anxious Generation, of the Great Rewiring of Childhood is causing
1:35.2	an epidemic of mental illness. He explains the damage he thinks is being underestimated. We also
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