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*Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety*

That is the new book by Peter Gray, and it is very much a whole philosophy of child-rearing and also antidote to the current panic over social media. Excerpt: In preparation for this chapter, I spent weeks poring over the research literature pretaining to smartphones, social media, and teen mental health.

  • Teen suffering peaked around 1990, not due to digital devices.
  • Suicide rates among European teenagers declined while US rates rose.

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