How to Reclaim Childhood for the Anxious Generation

If there’s one book that we've all been devouring over the summer, it's Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation.

Based on his extensive research, Haidt’s hugely topical book looks into the devastating mental health epidemic currently affecting our teens, which he explains via the twin dynamics of the adolescent adoption of smartphones and a shift away from the ‘play-based childhood’ that used to be the bedrock of healthy child development.

Here in the latest article for Talk Education, I delve into this theory and look at how parents and schools can help turn the tide, ensuring children are no longer over-protected in the real world and under-protected online. 

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