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Jonathan Haidt: How to balance smartphones and kids

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Fri, 6 Jun 2025, 4:57pm

Jonathan Haidt: How to balance smartphones and kids

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Newstalk ZB ,
Publish Date
Fri, 6 Jun 2025, 4:57pm

Increasing levels of depression and anxiety have been recorded in young people since around 2011.

The novel ‘The Anxious Generation’ makes the case that young people today are suffering because a play-based childhood has been replaced by a phone-based childhood.

Its author, Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt from New York University’s Stern School of Business talks to Heather du Plessis-Allan about the issue.

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