New Dartmouth 🌲 study: The 'vanishing well-being of the young appears to be global... started in 2011 just as there was a rapid pick up in both internet & smart phone use. The decline in mental health appears to be most rapid among young women...' nber.org/papers/w32500

Still more evidence (from Australia) that the youth mental health crisis is real and international, and cannot be explained by changing rules and guidelines in the USA:

I keep saying that parents should link up with the parents of their kids' friends, to roll back the phone-based childhood together. Here's a great story from a mom showing how to do it, how to create 'feral gangs of children' that have a great time:

thestar.com.my/lifestyle/fami…

'Argumenta que los teléfonos inteligentes han provocado una 'gran reconfiguración' de la infancia que está destruyendo la socialización y maduración de la especie humana, provocando una epidemia de salud mental y fragilidad emocional' Jonathan Haidt elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/202…

Join FAIR at Heterodox Academy's Conference in Chicago, IL, June 6th-8th, to explore what's next for open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement in academia! The theme of #HxA2024 is Principles in Action. Learn more and register here:
heterodoxacademy.org/2024conference/

New episode in my video series The Life of the Mind: The Art of Giving, in which I analyze the psychology of charity with insights from two great Jewish thinkers, Maimonides and Larry David. youtu.be/9tlcItHdb7Y?fe… via YouTube

More evidence of harm from the phone-based childhood, not just on mental health but on education, in the UK

The top two books on Amazon yesterday could both plausibly be retitled 'Oh, the places we will no longer let you go!'

Visit letgrow.org to make it no longer so.
Let Grow

Thank you Elon Musk! Technologies that are useful for adults pursuing adult goals can sometimes interfere with kids pursuing the goals of childhood.

Rarely have I had interviewers as enthusiastic and fun as Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb, on TODAY.

You can watch us all tripping over each others' words to talk about what's happening to kids, and what's the solution:
today.com/video/inside-t…

Here are the key practical steps that parents can take, now, to give their kids a better childhood.
Thanks Oprah Daily

'If roughly half the population’s mental health is under-regarded & under-addressed, that’s bad for everyone. We are doing a better job of noticing the emotional distress of our teen girls. Time to pay the same attention to our teen boys.' Lisa Damour, PhD aibm.org/commentary/boy…

It's always fun to talk with Brendan O'Neill, thanks spiked!

Apple, Google, and Microsoft could add a feature that would make it easy for parents to request that their child be age-verified across the internet. It raises zero privacy concerns. Ravi Iyer explains how, at After Babel:

afterbabel.com/p/how-apple-go…

Here is a great profile of Lenore Skenazy, Let Grow, and the ways that we are trying to re-normalize childhood independence:

Let Grow Co-founder Peter Gray on how it feels to grow up being totally watched and controlled--by adults who love you--and why this saps the spirit:

petergray.substack.com/p/letter-41-ho…

“All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.”
-John Stuart Mill

More Mill quotes here: stevestewartwilliams.com/p/top-10-john-…