(PREVIEW) The Anxious Generation Book Club

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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I don't want to sound like an old grump here, but kids these days with their devices and social medias are in trouble. What's that, you say? There's a whole book that not only agrees with that sentiment, but also has data to prove that the worsening outcomes of the world's youth are likely causal to the rise of social media and constant access to phones? Yes, it's Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation" and for our Spring Book Club, we've read it and are ready to discuss these eye-opening findings at with our regular crew. Fortunately, there's a lot more here than just evidence of the decline of play-based childhoods since the '80s and the significant rise of depression and anxiety in young adults since the 2010s. We've also got some ideas (some from the book and some from us) as to what we can do to turn this trend around. Rob and Diana put their youngest kid into a tall tower. That's not recommended by Haidt, but one can never be too careful!

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Content discussed in this episode:

Haidt, J., (2024). The anxious generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. Penguin Press.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to our preview version of the Anxious Generation Book Club,
0:19.8	where me, Diana, Jackie, and Alan all discuss a full-length book
0:24.8	unlike the regular episodes where we talk about a theme or a topic
0:28.4	and related research articles.
0:30.0	This is a whole book.
0:31.4	And in this episode, we discuss The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt.
0:35.8	Now, if you are interested in hearing the discussion of this book right now, the full two hours,
0:41.5	as well as potentially getting a CE, two CEs for no additional charge, all you need to do is
0:48.8	go to patreon.com slash ABA Inside Track or click the link in your podcast player.
0:53.5	It'll take you right there and subscribe at the $10 and up level. You'll get access to this book club podcast as well as all of our other book club podcasts. And you'll get two CEs for all of those. There's a discount code that you get just for being a patron as a big thanks for us. If you're saying, you know what, let me hear the preview. That sounds fun. I'll hear this at some point. Don't worry. Eventually, this will come out on the free fee. But if you don't want to have FOMO, which is a lot of what we talk about in this book club discussion, that's patreon.com slash ABA Inside Track. All right, here's a little snippet of what our full-length discussion is. We go over a couple of our thoughts on the book, general thoughts on the book. But if you want to hear us discuss the whole thing, again, as you're going to have to subscribe at the $10 and up level. But for what we got today, please enjoy. Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer.
1:46.2	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts.
1:51.3	Hi there, Rob. It's me and your friend Jackie McDonald.
1:55.5	And hi, it's me, Diana, Perry Cruz. I'm far away from the microphone.
1:59.9	You should move in closer to the microphone.
2:04.2	There you go.
2:06.7	Is this better?
2:08.1	Yeah, not just do your intro.
2:09.1	Yeah.
2:09.2	Talk really, really, really close.
2:11.7	Just do your intro again.
2:13.6	And hi, it's me, Diana Perry Cruz.
2:15.9	What's up?
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