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Date: March 24, 2024 03:14PM
Brother Of Jerry Wrote:
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> I didn't know Gen Z needed fixing.
If You don’t think there’s a mental health crisis among Gen Z, you are not paying attention.
“When it comes to our young people and their mental health, the news is not good. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for people under 24 in the U.S., and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report last year found 20 percent of the country’s 12- to 17-year-olds had had at least one major depressive episode—results unlike anything the CDC had seen in thirty years of collecting such data. Its director of adolescent and school health, Kathlee Ethie, called the findings “devastating.” She said, “Young people are telling us they are in crisis. The data really call on us to act.”
There are plenty of recommendations for action in Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Haidt, a psychologist at New York University, starts by giving a readers a baseline on kids, why girls have higher rates of mood disorders and self-harming behavior, and why today’s boys are more at risk of “failure to launch” (that is, transition from adolescence to adulthood). And—perhaps not surprising, from the author of The Coddling of the American Mind—he argues that parents are overprotecting their kids in the real, physical world and underprotecting them in the Wild West online.“
https://harvardpublichealth.org/mental-health/jonathan-haidt-on-countering-negative-effects-of-social-media/> The older half of Gen Z are in their 20s, so
> doesn't apply to them. No phones in schools seems
> like a decent idea. Students will complain, and
> more than a few parents will complain too. And
> that would probably increase the number of HS
> dropouts just to get out from under the
> restriction.
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> Other than that, great idea.
I don’t think taking away their phones solves the problem, since I have kids and they have 8 other ways to access the internet. The problem is we rapidly adopt technology w/o beta testing it or asking what harm it could do to the wiring of our kids brains at a time when those neural pathways are formative. We give our kids cell phones with big screens and unlimited access to hard core deviant porn at a very young age. Never stopping to question what’s this doing to my kid’s psyche?