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The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis is the Loss of Community
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We've forgotten what community really means.
on Aug 2
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Snapchat is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
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In their own words, we see that Snap Inc’s design choices expose millions of kids to harm
on Apr 17
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Prescient warnings from Neil Postman about the tradeoffs we make with new technologies
on Feb 27
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Flaws in a Recent Lancet Study on Phone Use in Schools
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Five problems that call into question the authors’ conclusion that phone free schools don’t improve mental health or academic performance
on Feb 13
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Gen Z, Social Media is Optional
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Young people can use technology to connect directly while shunning the apps designed to hook us
on Jan 24
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The Real User Interface: Recovering Our Neighborhoods
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Although the technological forces driving us apart are powerful, the forces needed to hold us together are right in front of us.
on Jan 15
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Why parenting less might be the best thing we can do for our children
on Jan 10
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TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
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Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words
on Jan 9
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Where the Magic Doesn’t Happen
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How technology can interfere with moral formation at school, church, and home
on Jan 2
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The Global Loss of the U-Shaped Curve of Happiness
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Happiness used to be U-shaped by age, with middle age the least happy. Not anymore. Young people are now the least happy.
on Dec 29
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Congress Must Pass KOSA By Christmas. The Only Obstacle Seems to be Meta’s Influence
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Now that Elon and X have addressed the last free speech concerns, the House leadership should allow it to come up for a vote.
on Dec 14
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The Tech Industry’s Playbook To Prevent Regulation
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The Tech Industry is using an old trick – shifting the responsibility entirely to us
on Dec 11
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Social Media is Disproportionately Hurting Girls
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Parents Need to Have These Conversations with Their Daughters
on Dec 5
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Scott Galloway Explains Why Age Gating Social Media Is Both Necessary and Doable
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The companies can do it, but they're incentivized to fight it
on Dec 3
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Why Australia is Setting a Minimum Age of 16 for Creating a Social Media Account
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A member of the Australian Parliament lays it out for us
on Nov 27
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How Parents Can Fight Back Against the Digital Deluge of Life
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Seven tips for parents to disconnect in the digital age.
on Nov 20
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67 Screen-Free Activities for Kids
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What to do with kids when it's dark and cold this winter
on Nov 14
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The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
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The Case Against Student Use of Computers, Tablets, and Smartphones in the Classroom
on Nov 13
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The Joy of Missing Out: Lessons from a Church-Wide Digital Detox
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How Churches can help roll back the phone-based life
on Nov 2
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A Mission for Businesses & Entrepreneurs: Help Bring Back Childhood
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Market forces got us into this mess, and market forces can help us escape
on Oct 30
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The False Promise of Device-Based Education
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A reevaluation of screens in schools
on Oct 17
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Four Lessons for Raising Resilient Children in the Digital Age
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What secular families can learn from faith-based communities
on Oct 17
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The recent meta-analysis of social media experiments achieved a statistically insignificant result only due to a string of errors.
on Oct 4
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Research-Backed Advice on Screen Policies for Young Kids
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Jacqueline Nesi and Cara Goodwin interpret a recent meta-analysis.
on Sep 24
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An extraordinary month is unfolding in the international movement to roll back the phone-based childhood.
on Sep 18
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The Worst Argument That Social-Media Companies Use to Defend Themselves
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Why are tech leaders so adamant about pushing their creations on other people’s kids, while protecting their own?
on Sep 16
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The Case for Causality, Part 1
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A recent meta-analysis contains yet overlooks evidence that multi-week social media reduction experiments consistently improve mental health
on Aug 29
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A Cure for Child Anxiety Hiding (and Seeking) in Plain Sight
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Don’t just go phone free: Start a Play Club at your school too.
on Aug 27
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The Sunday Times (UK) just ran a major story illustrating the twin prescriptions in The Anxious Generation
on Aug 12
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One of the Best Documentaries on the Loss of the Play-Based Childhood
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“Chasing Childhood” contrasts the play-based childhood of the 1980s with the over-supervised and fearful childhoods of today. It’s great for inspiring collective action.
on Aug 7
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How Phones Are Making Parents the Anxious Generation
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Smartphones are trust blockers for parents
on Jul 25
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Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World
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Advice from the author of Childhood Unplugged
on Jul 18
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Treating Childhood Anxiety with a Mega-Dose of Independence
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What therapists can do to help restore the play-based childhood
on Jul 8
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It's easier to create “play-based childhoods” if we can simultaneously create vibrant “community-based childhoods” to support them.
on Jun 27
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How has mental health changed across demographic groups since 2010?
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If social media is uniquely beneficial to adolescents in marginalized communities, we might expect to see their rates of anxiety and depression increase less than those of other groups. But we don’t.
on Jun 26
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The Great Deterioration of Local Community And The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood
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Kids growing up in close-knit communities where the social ties are thick are more protected from the harms of the phone-based childhood.
on Jun 24
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Big News: The Surgeon General Calls For a Warning Label on Social Media
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Dr. Murthy is right. The evidence of widespread harm to adolescents is now strong.
on Jun 18
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10 Tips to Help Your Kid (and You) Break Up with Screens
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Introducing Catherine Price, who writes books on fun and on phones, and offers ten tips for helping you and your children scroll less and live more
on Jun 6
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Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health
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New global study from Sapien Labs finds consistent links, stronger for girls
on May 26
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How Apple, Google, and Microsoft Can Help Parents Protect Children
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The case for device-based age verification
on May 23
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On The Degrading Effects of Life Online
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How social media makes us worse people
on May 14
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Keeping Our Kids Safe Online
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Reflections from a bereaved mother
on May 10
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How To Reduce the Sexual Solicitation of Teens on Instagram
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Suggestions from Meta whistleblower Arturo Béjar, which could have been implemented long ago
on May 6
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Suicide rates are now higher among young adults than the middle-aged
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It’s time to update statements about age and suicide
on Apr 25, 2024