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How to turn an iPhone into a "dumb" phone to limit access to the internet and social media. Keep Maps and Messages available through the feature Assisted Access: .go to Settings then Accessibilities....scroll down to Assisted Access! Check it out and choose the apps you approve.
Read this book this summer! It'll make a lot of sense about what the phone is doing to our kids.
"Johnathon Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes — communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children — and ourselves from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.
In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.
Most importantly, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore. a more humane childhood." (https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/book)
KIDS CORNER:
Good summer reads! I've highlighted the ones that I have read over the last two weeks.
Highly recommend:
The Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz
The List of Unspeakable Fears by J. Kasper Kramer
Orphan Train Girl: The Young Readers’ Edition of Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
The Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda
The Orphan Band of Springdale by Anne Nesbet
The Enemy by Sara Holbrook
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
NON-FICTION
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin
Torpedoed!: A World War II Story of a Sinking Passenger Ship and Two Children’s
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