The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Great book to spark real discussion!

Excellent.

I found this book very interesting and appreciated the topic. However, it was very repetitive and almost read like a college paper. I think parents, teachers, and anyone who is around children should absolutely read this book.

Thoughtful commentary that makes me very wary of the direction of technology amongst young people. Also makes me want more willpower to get off my phone because in lieu of all the data saying phones/social media/technology is bad, where is the counter example data that it's doing anything beneficial for my brain?

A must read for all educators and school administrators, especially upper ES and definitely MS/HS teachers. Also, any parent who especially have tween or teen girls. For parents who know to provide necessary structure for and help develop independence of their children at home, this book will confirm what they’re already doing right…but it’s helpful to have more awareness of the situation as a whole, like what their children’s generation is going through and what the general climate is like. Now, I haven’t fact-checked his claims but they mostly ring true based on some things I’ve seen in middle school students. (I give five stars to books I wish more people would read, not necessarily that the book knocked my socks off.)