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How Smartphones Are Rewiring Children | USM Blog

Promote a play-based environment rather than a phone-based one. This means that parents need to relinquish some of their worry about stranger danger.

'The Great Rewiring of Childhood' - NYU

With provocative articles in publications like the New Yorker (“Jonathan Haidt Wants to Take Away Your Kid's Phone”) and the New York Times (“ ...

Generation Text: How smartphones are affecting kids

One expert calls it the great rewiring of childhood, with smartphones and social media taking over and playing a big role in the mental ...

Opinion: Are social media and smartphones rewiring kids' brains?

The research we have to date suggests that the effects of phones and social media on adolescent mental health are probably much more nuanced.

Tech has rewired our kids' brains, a new book says. Can we undo ...

Smartphones and social media aren't the only culprits, though. Sure, they opened a can of worms by providing unrestricted access to carefully ...

How cell phones are killing our kids, and what we can do about it

... smartphones and social media to children ... rewiring of childhood. Before 2010, teenage boys were much more ...

Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here's How to ...

The mass migration of childhood from the real world into the virtual world has completely changed what it means to be a kid. In replacing free ...

The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood - The Atlantic

Jonathan Haidt's new book, "The Anxious Generation," makes the case against devices for children—even if they desperately want them.

Screens and teens: How phones broke children's brains

There are four foundational “harms” triggered by the new “phone-based childhood”, puts forth Haidt: social deprivation, sleep deprivation, ...

Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid's Phone

The social psychologist discusses the “great rewiring” of children's brains, why social-media companies are to blame, and how to reverse course.

The Surprising and Sobering Truth About Kids and Smartphones

What kids are looking at online—asking questions and allowing them to show us what they're seeing. This also plays into their sense of mastery: ...

How Smartphones Are Rewiring Our Brains, Why Social Media is ...

As a parent and a doctor, I'm deeply concerned about the mental health crisis facing our children and young people. But if, as a society, we can ...

“The Anxious Generation”: How Smartphones Are Rewiring Young ...

By delaying smartphone access, parents hope to give their children a chance to grow up more grounded, focused, and emotionally balanced. " ...

The consequences of a smartphone-centered childhood - NPR

Smartphones are not only addictive, but they contribute to low self-esteem and feelings of isolation among kids. And with Big Tech companies ...

Screen Time and the Brain | Harvard Medical School

Much of what happens on screen provides “impoverished” stimulation of the developing brain compared to reality, he says. Children need a diverse menu of online ...

Are Smartphones Rewiring Childhood? - The Moment Magazine

Not only that, but smartphones enable communication and connection, allowing children to stay in touch with family and friends. This is ...

Screens and teens: How phones broke children's brains : r/collapse

One thing for kids in school is that smartphones combined with social media have effectively created an environment of peer-to-peer surveillance ...

Digital Addiction: The time spent in front of cellphone screens has ...

These are two of what Haidt and Rausch describe as the four foundational harms caused by the phone-based childhood: sleep deprivation, attention ...

Teen Smartphone Tips For Parents From 'Anxious Generation' Author

"I call smartphones 'experience blockers,' because once you give the phone to a child, it's going to take up every moment that is not nailed ...

A modest proposal: No smartphones for kids - Axios

A "phone-based" childhood causes "social deprivation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation and addiction," Haidt writes. A "play-based" ...