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A Seat at the Table: The Rewiring of Childhood With Jonathan Haidt
A recent Pew survey confirmed what most educators and parents already know: Teens are addicted to their cellphones. Nearly 50% of them are online “almost constantly,” spending roughly five hours a day on their devices, including the hours when they are glued to social media. The impact of these devices on students’ academic performance and attention spans has , but so have concerns about the impact on mental health.
Books To Help Your Digital Detox
Your phone is not neutral. Neither is your feed, your inbox, or the app that just sent you a notification while you were reading this. The technology designed to connect us has also been engineered— deliberately and precisely—to capture our attention and hold it hostage. The result: we are more distracted, more anxious, and more addicted than any generation before us. These books won’t just help you put down your phone.
Niesamowite pokolenie. Przewodnik po zabawie i wolności w świecie pełnym ekranów
Przewodnik dla dzieci i nastolatków, pokazujący, że można wieść szczęśliwe i pełne przygód życie, w którym nie dominuje wszechobecny smartfon. Przez świat przetacza się globalna dyskusja na temat zgubnego wpływu smartfonów i mediów społecznościowych na rozwój młodych ludzi, mobilizując do działania miliony rodziców, nauczycieli i decydentów.
Join Me for the Global Day of Unplugging
This week’s post is sponsored by Yoto, a screen-free way for kids to independently listen to stories, music, podcasts, and more, with audio players specifically designed for children and families. For more info on Yoto, keep reading. (And to learn about my philosophy toward sponsored posts, click here.) Friends: This Friday-Saturday (March 6-7) marks one of my favorite events of the year: The Global Day of Unplugging.
The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World Book Review
age 9+ Urgent call for "rebel" kids to control their virtual lives. Parents need to know that tweens are called upon to take control of their virtual lives in The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World by Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, and Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up with Your Phone.
How to Talk About Screens and Mental Health in a Way Kids Hear
In 2024, Jonathan Haidt published his bestseller The Anxious Generation and spoke with Oprah for “The Life You Want: Teen Mental Health” about the mounting global teen mental health crisis and the “great rewriting” of childhood from play-based to phone-based, fueled by smartphones and social media. Since then, his message about how technology affects kids’ well-being—which Oprah has called “one of the most pressing issues of our time”—has reached millions.
How to Fill Your Life with Real Friendship, Freedom, and Fun
Rebels don’t just avoid technologies that are designed to addict them. They also seek out opportunities for real friendship, freedom, and fun. Why? Because they know that the more they fill their lives with real friendship, freedom, and fun, the more amazing they will feel—and the less they’ll want to spend time on screens. Friendship Humans need friends in order to be happy and healthy.
Four Questions for Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price
Author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt teamed up with science journalist Catherine Price to speak directly to tweens in The Amazing Generation: A Guide to Freedom and Fun in a Screen-Filled World. Drawing on Haidt’s adult bestseller The Anxious Generation and Price’s How to Break Up with Your Phone, the book helps young readers push back against Big Tech and reclaim real-life connections.
Four Questions for Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price
Author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt teamed up with science journalist Catherine Price to speak directly to tweens in The Amazing Generation: A Guide to Freedom and Fun in a Screen-Filled World. Drawing on Haidt’s adult bestseller The Anxious Generation and Price’s How to Break Up with Your Phone, the book helps young readers push back against Big Tech and reclaim real-life connections.
How to Have a Device-Free Thanksgiving
Friends: As longtime readers of this newsletter know, every Thanksgiving I invite my readers to make their holiday tables phone-free as a way to foster presence and connection between their families and guests. This year, as AI-powered toys hit the shelves and an increasing number of Americans seek companionship in chatbots, creating moments of genuine human connection feels more urgent to me than ever—and Thanksgiving is an excellent opportunity to do so.
Thinking of Getting Your Kid a Phone This Fall?
It’s back-to-school season here in the States, which means a whole new crop of kids are going to start walking to school and going to practices and rehearsals on their own. This also means that a whole new crop of parents—perhaps including you!— are thinking of getting their kids phones. Many kids, understandably, are pushing for smartphones. And many parents are considering saying yes, despite their concerns, in part because they don’t realize that there are other options available.
The Amazing Generation – Order Now!
Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation, this new book for tweens is a handbook for living a happy and exciting life that isn’t hijacked by a smartphone. Jonathan Haidt’s blockbuster book The Anxious Generation has sparked a global conversation about the effects of smartphones and social media on young people’s development, inspiring millions of parents, teachers, and leaders to take action.
Laurie Santos’s Pursuit of Happiness
Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert Gilbert researches the ways in which we’re bad at predicting what’ll make us happy, and what might hurt us. Prospection is an amazing power that humans have, but it’s kind of in beta version. One of our systematic errors is that we constantly overestimate the effects—magnitude and duration—that our circumstances will have on us. It’s what Gilbert refers to as impact bias.
Living a Life of Playful Rebellion
Happy Saturday, my friends!I am so happy to be in your inbox today.
Power of Play and Having Fun
With summer in full swing, there’s no better time to embrace the power of play and the joy of simply having fun. And sometimes, the best way to have fun is to find delight in life’s simple pleasures. This week, we’re shifting our focus to the importance of play and recreation in nourishing our mental wellbeing. From games to creative pursuits and outdoor adventures, a world of wonder is waiting to be explored.
Are screens bad for kids' cognitive development?
Hi! I’m Jacqueline Nesi, a psychologist and professor at Brown University, co-founder of Tech Without Stress (@techwithoutstress), and mom of two young kids. Today at Techno Sapiens we’re kicking off *Myth-Busting March*, a multi-week series where we’re getting to the bottom of common claims about kids and screens. Know someone who might be interested? Share this email so they can join 20,000+ readers and get in on the fun. 8 min read I’ve got good news and bad news.
How to Have Fun When You Can't Leave The House
Well, it’s been quite the week. Shortly after I hit send on my post about life feeling messy, my child tipped a heavy chair over onto her foot and broke a bone. Shortly after that, she and my husband both tested positive for Covid. Thankfully, they’re doing okay, but given that I have a pre-existing condition (Type 1 diabetes) that puts me at greater risk of, well, everything, I’m hiding from them in hopes that I stay healthy.
Stand up to gravity this year.
Sit up straight. Stand up straight! Keep your head up and shoulders back. It may be that every human being since the dawn of civilization has heard at least one of these commands spoken to them at some point in their lifetime. Depending upon the enlightenment of the era and the temperament of the advisor, perhaps there was a small smack involved. Maybe this held true with the Neanderthals as well.
Fun is a feeling, not an activity
Hello, friends! Welcome back to the January Funtervention—I’m thrilled you’re here! (And welcome to new subscribers — to catch up on what we’ve done so far, check out my Funtervention kickoff post from Monday.) Today, I want to tell you about a key insight that I’ve learned about fun, and I also want to share a conversation (keep reading to listen!) that I just had with Wendy MacNaughton, an artist, graphic journalist, fellow Substacker and new friend, who’s running a program for January...
A better approach: When the world feels dark, seek out delight
By Catherine Price NEW YORK: Here’s an idea for the new year: Let’s make 2024 the year of delight. Does that sound ridiculous, given the state of the world right now? Hear me out. The basic premise of a delight practice (which I learned about in the essay collection “The Book of Delights” by Ross Gay) is simple: You make a point to notice things in your everyday life that delight you.
Welcome to the January Funtervention!
Happy early new year, everyone! And a special welcome to all the new subscribers who have joined the “How to Feel Alive” community from The Guardian and The New York Times — I’m thrilled to have you! Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. I’m playing around with Substack’s “embed audio” feature and have recorded a New Year’s greeting for you.
Why Friends Is Making Me (And Perhaps You?) So Freaking Nostalgic
I wasn’t a huge Matthew Perry fan, and I wasn’t even a super-fan of Friends. And yet, ever since his death last week, I’ve felt an intense urge to watch old episodes of the show. Apparently other people have been craving Friends, too, and it’s made me wonder: where is this coming from? And also, when I succumbed to my cravings and started watching it, why did I feel such a sense of nostalgia and longing? What does that say about my —and perhaps your—current life and relationships?
How to Have a Good Weekend
First of all, thank you to everyone who has participated so far in our “Daily Delights” Substack chat. If you missed it, it’s a running thread, open to all subscribers, in which people share anecdotes or photos of things that have brought them delight that day—a practice, inspired by the poet Ross Gay, that I believe is important at any time, but is especially so given everything going on right now.
Editor's Choice - Caregiver Solutions Magazine
Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life Have you had your daily dose of fun? “It’s not just enjoyable, it’s also essential for your health and happiness,” says journalist Catherine Price. She proposes a new definition of fun–what she calls “true fun”, and shares easy evidence-backed ways to weave playfulness, flow and connection into your everyday life. ted.com
Efficacy of Control-IQ Technology in a General Endocrine Clinic
Recent advances in technology have allowed for the expanded use of hybrid closed-loop insulin pump therapy and automated insulin delivery systems for the management of diabetes mellitus. We assessed the outcomes of introducing Tandem t:slim X2 with the Control-IQ technology in a general endocrine clinic. Data from 66 adults with type 1 (n = 61) and type 2 (n = 5) diabetes mellitus were aggregated for analysis.
An Interactive Course from Catherine Price
Stop Languishing and Start Living Do you ever feel like you’re just going through the motions, not fully engaged, lacking focus, and not completely present in the moments that matter? This 14-day interactive course, based on my book The Power of Fun, is designed to help you Find Your Fun, so that you can rediscover what it feels like to actually feel alive. And as an added benefit, you’ll become happier, healthier, more productive and less stressed too.
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