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

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The Truth About Cell Phones & Social Media

For health and development reasons, cell phones and social media are probably the most detrimental things to learning and socializing in the real world. Smartphones and social media are one of the Top 10 Reasons Kids Are Failing. Children are being socially engineered to become obsessed with virtue signaling on social media. “Addiction to distraction is the death of creative production” ~ Robin Sharma “In today’s society, the cell phone has become a remote control. People do not leave their…

Childhood

“Schools [are] … institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.” ~ John Taylor Gatto “My clients spend their childhoods and in particular their adolescences putting their healthy development on hold, coached and managed by parents who are so fearful and anxious about helping their children succeed that there is simply no room for their children, my clients, to begin to know themselves.” ~ Kate Fagan [What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen] …

Mental Health Crisis

Childhood is NOT a Mental Disorder https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/31/student-mental-health-decline-cdc/ https://thepulse.one/2022/03/02/lockdowns-crush-mental-health-and-wellbeing-in-young-people/ The Cause Masquerading As The Solution!

Treating Childhood Anxiety with a Mega-Dose of Independence

Enormous Decline in Children's Freedom

Check out the short 1 minute video by Peter Gray who is trying to change the laws for free range parenting: [Peter Gray on the Free-Range Parenting Law] “With the enormous decline in children’s freedom, children’s mental health has also significantly declined. Depression & Anxiety are roughly 8 times what they were serval decades ago when children were freer. The suicide rate among school-aged children is now roughly six times what it was.” Schools aren’t exactly improving this sta…

NATIONAL EMERGENCY: Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children’s Mental Well-being

“It is no secret that rates of anxiety and depression among school-aged children and teens in the US are at an all-time high.” This study references tons of resources… https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(23)00111-7/fulltext