Join social psychologist and New York Times-bestselling author Jonathan Haidt (The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness and The Coddling of the American Mind) and renowned clinical psychologist and parenting expert, Good Inside founder and CEO Dr. Becky Kennedy on the epidemic of anxiety in American children and the solutions that will bring back the play-based childhood.
After more than a decade of stability or, in some cases, improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness. Investigating the very nature of childhood, Haidt and Dr. Becky dispense with conventional wisdom and reframe the way we think about parenting — discussing the troubling decline of play-based childhood and the rise of smartphones, the future of parenting in 2024, and how the tools of “sturdy leadership” are critical to helping make the anxious generation a little less anxious.
