A discussion of Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, addressing the risks of smart phone use to kids and adolescents. Also, what parents can do to mitigate those risks.
A Discussion of the Risks of Achievement Culture in Never Enough by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
For children of immigrants, assimilation into American culture has been associated with worse outcomes. What are these parents doing differently? Here are my practical takeaways for parents.
This book challenged my initial belief that emotional social learning taught in schools was probably harmless and likely beneficial. One of my primary takeaways from Bad Therapy was that some techniques that are currently in-vogue for parents and teachers to teach emotional skills (i.e., “social emotional learning”) are counterproductive.
