Episode-by-episode discussion of The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt — the phone-based childhood, what it did to a generation, and what to do about it. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of Burnout Books to Podcasts.
4 episodes listed below. All 18 are on Apple Podcasts, free, no signup.
Season two opens with the policy playbook: age verification, raising the age of internet adulthood, and why 'the parents should just parent' is the tech industry's favorite deflection.
The single highest-leverage fix: bell-to-bell phone-free schools, more recess, more free play. What the early-adopting schools discovered about attention, friendship, and even laughter coming back.
The practical parent episode: no smartphone before high school, no social media before 16, real independence earlier. What to do at every age — and how to hold the line without becoming the villain.
The series finale pulls it all together: the great rewiring, the four harms, and the four norms that reverse them. The complete takeaway from The Anxious Generation — and the hopeful case that this is fixable.
We discuss it chapter by chapter, but nothing replaces reading it. This is an Amazon affiliate link — it costs you nothing extra and it helps pay for the show.
18 episodes in this show, 1,100+ across the whole network, and a new one every day.
More chapter-by-chapter shows: Good Inside · Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
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