#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year!
Jonathan Haidt’s blockbuster book, The Anxious Generation, has sparked a global conversation about the effects of smartphones and social media on young people’s development, and has inspired millions of parents, teachers, and leaders to take action. Now, Haidt and Catherine Price, author of the bestselling How to Break Up with Your Phone, have teamed up to create a new book that speaks directly to kids. Their goal? To empower young people to stand up for themselves by choosing a life not dominated by screens and social media.
Whether or not kids already have smartphones or social media accounts, this engaging guide is packed with surprising facts, a graphic novel, interactive challenges, secrets that tech leaders don’t want kids to know, and real-life anecdotes from young adults who regret getting smartphones at a young age and want to help the next generation avoid making the same mistakes.
But this isn’t just a book about what not to do. It’s a bold, optimistic, and practical guide to growing into your most authentic, confident, and adventurous self. Readers won’t just discover how to avoid becoming the next Anxious Generation. They’ll learn how to become amazing.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year!
Jonathan Haidt’s blockbuster book, The Anxious Generation, has sparked a global conversation about the effects of smartphones and social media on young people’s development, and has inspired millions of parents, teachers, and leaders to take action. Now, Haidt and Catherine Price, author of the bestselling How to Break Up with Your Phone, have teamed up to create a new book that speaks directly to kids. Their goal? To empower young people to stand up for themselves by choosing a life not dominated by screens and social media.
Whether or not kids already have smartphones or social media accounts, this engaging guide is packed with surprising facts, a graphic novel, interactive challenges, secrets that tech leaders don’t want kids to know, and real-life anecdotes from young adults who regret getting smartphones at a young age and want to help the next generation avoid making the same mistakes.
But this isn’t just a book about what not to do. It’s a bold, optimistic, and practical guide to growing into your most authentic, confident, and adventurous self. Readers won’t just discover how to avoid becoming the next Anxious Generation. They’ll learn how to become amazing.
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Inquiry into social psychology and the intuitive roots of human morality has reshaped modern non-fiction discussions around politics, culture, and mental health, notably through bestselling works such as The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has spent decades investigating how emotional instincts precede moral reasoning and why moral communities form opposing ideological tribes.
Born in 1963 and raised in Scarsdale, New York, Haidt earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1985 before completing his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. After completing post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago, he taught for 16 years in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He later joined New York University's Stern School of Business as the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, where his research expanded from moral psychology and cultural politics to analyzing how social media impacts teen mental health.
Haidt combines psychological research, evolutionary concepts, and philosophical principles to explain moral judgment and cultural disagreement. His writing emphasizes that intuitive emotional reactions generally precede conscious rationalization when people evaluate right and wrong. Across his studies of moral emotions, political polarization, and youth mental health, he explores how social institutions, cultural values, and digital environments influence individual psychological well-being and collective social stability.
4 books in catalog
Inquiry into social psychology and the intuitive roots of human morality has reshaped modern non-fiction discussions around politics, culture, and mental health, notably through bestselling works such as The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has spent decades investigating how emotional instincts precede moral reasoning and why moral communities form opposing ideological tribes.
Born in 1963 and raised in Scarsdale, New York, Haidt earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1985 before completing his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. After completing post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago, he taught for 16 years in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He later joined New York University's Stern School of Business as the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, where his research expanded from moral psychology and cultural politics to analyzing how social media impacts teen mental health.
Haidt combines psychological research, evolutionary concepts, and philosophical principles to explain moral judgment and cultural disagreement. His writing emphasizes that intuitive emotional reactions generally precede conscious rationalization when people evaluate right and wrong. Across his studies of moral emotions, political polarization, and youth mental health, he explores how social institutions, cultural values, and digital environments influence individual psychological well-being and collective social stability.