The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World

by Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price

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This book addresses the impact of smartphones and social media on children's and adolescents' development. Written for a young audience, it combines informational text with illustrations, interactive activities, and personal reflections to encourage critical thinking about technology use. The authors present research-based perspectives, practical strategies, and first-person accounts from young adults, with the aim of helping readers develop habits that support well-being, independence, and show more personal growth in a digitally connected world. show less

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I had hoped this book would be more graphic novel than text, but it is not. Which is fine, I still think my kid will try it. I allowed my kid a phone at far too young an age, but I did course correct and banned YouTube Kids around 2nd grade. We initially told her no social media until 13, but recently we said maybe we should wait until she's even older because it just isn't good FOR ANYBODY. She didn't love that, so when I saw this book, I pre-ordered it. I've seen a lot of this information on Instagram, but there's something about seeing it in a book that makes it a little more real and not just SCARY INFO ABOUT THE END OF OUR SOCIETY, you know? It is a little repetitive, but I think it works for the audience because most kids probably show more won't read this in one sitting.

I haven't read The Anxious Generation because I don't need anymore anxiety in my life.
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Inspired by the award-winning phenomenon The Anxious Generation, this new book for kids and tweens is a comprehensive guide for living a happy and exciting life that isn’t hijacked by a smartphone.

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Catherine Price is an avid traveler and writer who hopes never to see a body farm firsthand. Coauthor of The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook and a contributing editor at Popular Science, she has written for the New York Times, O, the Oprah Magazine, Salon, Slate, and The Best American Science Writing.

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Tween, Nonfiction
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616.85Applied science & technologyMedicine & healthDiseases, Allergies, Skin ConditionsNervous Disorders: Autism, Anorexia, OCDMiscellaneous
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RC569.5 .I54 .H35MedicineInternal medicineInternal medicineNeurosciences. Biological psychiatry. NeuropsychiatryPsychiatryPsychopathologyPersonality disorders. Behavior problems
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English
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