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Given the childhood habits that were “crucial” to Bill Gates’s success and how the world has changed, the billionaire recommends Jonathan Haidt’s 2024 book “The Anxious Generation.”

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As Australia takes a bold step to curb social media's reach among teenagers, the world grapples with its pervasive impact—challenging trust, disrupting democracy, and reshaping our collective consciousness.

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Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and the author of The Anxious Generation, has said that social-media platforms have “rewired childhood and changed human development on an almost unimaginable scale.” Heavy teenage social-media use and higher ...

By Nahum Kozak BULLYING, anxiety and other problems associated with unsupervised teen smartphone and social media usage are on the rise, and parents are struggling to know what to do. As a parent and a psychologist,