{"id":13168,"date":"2024-03-31T23:16:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T23:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13168"},"modified":"2024-04-20T23:21:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T23:21:48","slug":"sedentary-solitary-anxious-and-depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/31\/sedentary-solitary-anxious-and-depressed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sedentary, solitary, anxious, and depressed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/jonathan-haidt-smartphones-rewired-childhood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Free Press<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here\u2019s How to Fix It.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Phones have made kids sedentary, solitary, anxious, and depressed. But, says the author and psychologist, we can reverse the damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/t\/jonathan-haidt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jonathan Haidt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_652,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F00d4d10d-72bd-4ca2-90b1-1f41fa22d5a7_1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Smartphones have made America\u2019s youth lonely, distracted, anxious and depressed, Jonathan Haidt writes. But we can reverse the damage.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 had a cataclysmic effect on childhood, which we are only just beginning to understand. (Photo by Adam Berry via Redferns)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Suppose a salesman in an electronics store told you he had a new product for your 11-year-old daughter that\u2019s very entertaining\u2014even more so than television\u2014with no harmful side effects of any kind, but also no more than minimal benefits beyond the entertainment value. How much would this product be worth to you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u2019t answer this question without knowing the opportunity cost. In&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/waldenthebook.com\/en\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Walden<\/a><\/em>, his 1854 reflection on simple living, Henry David Thoreau wrote, \u201cThe cost of a thing is the amount of.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the smartphone user gives up is time. A huge amount of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/jonathan-haidt-smartphones-rewired-childhood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The FP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Free Press Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here\u2019s How to Fix It. Phones have made kids sedentary, solitary, anxious, and depressed. But, says the author and psychologist, we can reverse the damage. By\u00a0Jonathan Haidt Suppose a salesman in an electronics store told you he had a new product for your 11-year-old daughter that\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}