I find many usually super science minded people (especially parents)....WANT to believe "The Anxious Generation." We all want to believe there's a thing we can do to "fix" kids. Haidt really tapped into that. But the science just isn't there. www.nature.com/articles/d41... - ThreadSky

beebrookshire.bsky.social • 84 days ago

I find many usually super science minded people (especially parents)....WANT to believe "The Anxious Generation." We all want to believe there's a thing we can do to "fix" kids. Haidt really tapped into that. But the science just isn't there. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2

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litonfirepia.bsky.social•70 days ago

I am SO glad I chose secure and gentle parenting, because my son was born in 2007 and in hindsight WHAT A WILD TIMELINE to be born into and I am SO LUCKY to have him still here on this earth by being a remembered resource for him in his darkest hours. We both lived, & it feels miraculous.

markhoofnagle.medsky.social•79 days ago

I would crawl under a rock if the journal Nature had to write an entire article on my work and how it rests entirely on the post hoc fallacy.

mark504.bsky.social•84 days ago

I don't know. Maybe we could seriously address climate change and our strangulation by late capitalism.

greenowl.bsky.social•83 days ago

Cameras, cars, radio, movies, tv, electric guitars, video cameras, video games, the Net, social media, smartphones - young folk embrace new tech more, older folk declare that it's making them anti-social, dysfunctional, selfish & degenerate. It's not the tech. It's people.

e-van-every.bsky.social•84 days ago

A kid who is dear to me has largely *rejected* social media because he says he doesn't find it fun. And yet he still has major anxiety, directly attributable to sociopolitical shit that affects him and a parent whose political choices are harming him. Huh.

envysnest.bsky.social•84 days ago

what's the matter? doesn't he love our brave new world of fascism, rising temperatures, and AI slop?? /s

lostservice22.bsky.social•84 days ago

Couldn't possibly be that anxiety and depression are caused by the state of the world. If that were the answer we would actually have to fix real problems.

ludibriumventis.bsky.social•84 days ago

Imagine that...! 🙃

mikethemadbiol.bsky.social•79 days ago

📌

ottiline.bsky.social•84 days ago

Bitches will really turn tricks to avoid confronting how badly the pressures of late stage capitalism and "work is worth" grindset are fucking us.

saluk64007.bsky.social•84 days ago

Good response!

"Unfortunately, our time is being spent telling stories that are unsupported by research and that do little to support young people who need, and deserve, more."

It's true. And also, how is much of these stories are spread on social media... Hmm, hmm? Checkmate (just kidding)

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