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We’ve overprotected kids IRL and under protected them online. In the book’s first chapters, Haidt rearticulates <br />a very familiar set of arguments about American kids’ lack of physical freedom. <br /> <br />Playgrounds used to be more dangerous! Kids used to roam the woods! Why is everyone always at scheduled <br />activities run by adults?! The kids never get a bruise or bump, and how will they learn to self-regulate this way? <br />None of this will be new to anyone who’s kept up with popular parenting books in the past few decades. Haidt’s <br />innovation lies in connecting this now-well-articulated picture of overprotected childhood with what happens <br />when those same kids get on phones. <br /> <br />The Anxious Generation, he hopes, will be part of a larger collective movement, one he is actively trying to <br />incite by publishing a companion website full of evidence, discussion guides, and sample petitions, and funding <br />billboards and public art in major cities. On his Substack, he wrote recently: “By the end of 2025, we will roll <br />back the phone-based childhood.” <br /> <br />"President John F. Kennedy said technology ‘has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for <br />good or ill depends on man.’ Yet swayed by digital-age myths, we are providing our children with remarkably <br />little guidance on their use of technology. <br /> <br />Request letter of support since it takes a village to save a child. Quotations by John F. Kennedy, “Children are <br />the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Thank You <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Craig A Durfey <br /> <br /> <br />8 <br /> <br />