A review by mycahroni
The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

4.0

ngl i thought this book would be very cringe but it actually wasn’t too bad! i like the writing style; it is very digestible. i find his takes very interesting, although i disagree a little on letting kids that young out into the world unsupervised. perhaps the people he talked to didn’t have really bad experiences as a child… how nice.

as someone who struggled with social media and developed self esteem issues in middle school and high school, i agree that kids don’t need access to smartphones at such a young age. i worry for gen alpha though.

minus one star for being a yap fest at times. would have liked more discussion on trans youth too.