The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
This blog isn’t a generic “social media is bad” argument. It’s my synthesis of The Anxious Generation and how the book explains the major shifts in childhood, the gender differences in how teens are affected, and the disappearance of real-world structures like play and rites of passage. Once you see how childhood was redesigned, the mental-health trends stop looking random.
