ARTICLES
NPR, “10 things to know about how social media affects teens' brain”
The Atlantic: “End the Phone-Based Childhood Now”- Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt, “Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults With Worse Mental Health”
Today Show, “Should kids have smartphones? Debate grows on mental health impact”
Must Read Books
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. Haidt shows the decline of the play-based childhood in the 1980’s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the phone-based childhood in the 2010’s.
Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction is Hijacking Our Kids- and How to Break the Trance. In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology―more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity―has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation.
DOCUMENTARIES
This documentary dives into the manipulation techniques that social media and technology companies use to addict users. Hear from the creators of Facebook’s Like button and executives at Google on why they don’t let their kids have phones.
An award winning film that probes into the vulnerable corners of family life and depicts messy struggles over social media, video games and academics. The film offers solutions on how we can help our kids navigate the digital world.
FAMILY GUIDES
From Wait Until Eighth, a guide on how to establish house rules and limitations for your children with devices.
From Wait Until Eighth, a conversation guide for how to talk to your children about phones.