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Join us to discuss THE ANXIOUS GENERATION by Jonathan Haidt. Anyone who has read the book is welcome to drop in. Please contact amendelson@cooklib.org for the Zoom link. DROP IN
Anyone who has read the book is welcome to drop in, but this club is currently closed to new ongoing members. If you are interested in joining the waiting list, fill out this form; you may also contact our Book Club Associate, Amy Becker-Perez, at aperez@cooklib.org or 847-362-2330 x1145.
About the book:
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt investigates this epidemic of teen mental illness and how the advent of smartphones wiped out the play-based childhood of the 1980s, examining how the devices and social media interfere with children's social and neurological development. Haidt then issues a clear call to action, proposes four simple rules that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.
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