{"id":13833,"date":"2024-03-24T11:37:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T10:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/24\/generation-anxiety-smartphones-have-created-a-gen-z-mental-health-crisis-but-there-are-ways-to-fix-it\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T10:37:37","slug":"generation-anxiety-smartphones-have-created-a-gen-z-mental-health-crisis-but-there-are-ways-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/24\/generation-anxiety-smartphones-have-created-a-gen-z-mental-health-crisis-but-there-are-ways-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation Anxiety: smartphones have created a gen Z mental health crisis \u2013 but there are ways to fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those born after 1995, argues Jonathan Haidt in his new book, were the first people in history to go through puberty with a portal to an alternative universe in their pockets \u2013 and the toll this has taken on their wellbeing has been devastating<\/p>\n<p>Suppose that when your first child turned nine, a visionary billionaire whom you\u2019d never met chose her to join the first permanent human settlement on Mars. Unbeknown to you, she had signed herself up for the mission because she loves outer space, and, besides, all of her friends have signed up. She begs you to let her go.<\/p>\n<p>You hear her desire, so before saying no, you agree at least to learn more. You learn that the reason they\u2019re recruiting children is because they will better adapt to the unusual conditions of Mars than adults. If children go through puberty and its associated growth spurt on Mars, their bodies will be permanently tailored to it, unlike settlers who come over as adults.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/mar\/24\/the-anxious-generation-jonathan-haidt-book-extract-instagram-tiktok-smartphones-social-media-screens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e7b5feb1dfc6662db0b0d282ae9abc4ca12f9c26\/0_59_6489_3894\/master\/6489.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b357a2f8648a957a5f8a364f2497a3d0\" title=\"Generation Anxiety: smartphones have created a gen Z mental health crisis \u2013 but there are ways to fix it\" \/>Those born after 1995, argues Jonathan Haidt in his new book, were the first people in history to go through puberty with a portal to an alternative universe in their pockets \u2013 and the toll this has taken on their wellbeing has been devastating<br \/>\nSuppose that when your first child turned nine, a visionary billionaire whom you\u2019d never met chose her to join the first permanent human settlement on Mars. Unbeknown to you, she had signed herself up for the mission because she loves outer space, and, besides, all of her friends have signed up. She begs you to let her go.<br \/>\nYou hear her desire, so before saying no, you agree at least to learn more. You learn that the reason they\u2019re recruiting children is because they will better adapt to the unusual conditions of Mars than adults. If children go through puberty and its associated growth spurt on Mars, their bodies will be permanently tailored to it, unlike settlers who come over as adults. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those born after 1995, argues Jonathan Haidt in his new book, were the first people in history to go through puberty with a portal to an alternative universe in their pockets \u2013 and the toll this has taken on their wellbeing has been devastating Suppose that when your first child turned nine, a visionary billionaire &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/24\/generation-anxiety-smartphones-have-created-a-gen-z-mental-health-crisis-but-there-are-ways-to-fix-it\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Generation Anxiety: smartphones have created a gen Z mental health crisis \u2013 but there are ways to fix it<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}