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# The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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Review: Good Read - Must read for anyone trying to understand how the Gen Z and Gen Alpha brain works and the reasons behind it.
Review: Smartphone Fatally Re-wiring Childhood - The book is a must read for every parent, and even for every citizen anywhere in the world. The author of THE ANXIOUS GENERATION, Jonathan Haidt, arrives at a horrifying conclusion from scientific studies that smartphones are fatally re-wiring childhood to cause epidemic of mental illness. The Great Re-wiring of Childhood began in this phone-based childhood—2010 to 2015. There were four fundamental harms to a child—sleep deprivation, social deprivation, attention fragmentation and addiction. Nearly 300 pages of text are accompanied by more than 50 pages of notes and references, a further guide for researchers and others interested in taking up these issues highlighted in the book. The book is about new changes occurring in the last decade—since 2010—especially in the ‘virtual world’ at the cost of damage to the ‘real world,’ in the minds of children. The threat by the virtual world on the real world of children is manifesting in the increasing trend in anxiety and depression among children mysteriously from about 2010. The virtual world re-wiring the tender brain-circuits for short-term benefits, which entails long-term costs to navigate in the real world, the interactions and relationships within the families, communities, and larger working environments. In other words, large curtailment in gain from real-life experiences, which is necessary for competition and cooperation in real life. A reader will have the first idea of these dangers of the dreamworld in the introduction: ‘Growing up on Mars.’ The threats become more serious when an ignorant mother herself places the iPhone in front of her infant, and the wide-eyed infant gulps milk or swallow food-bites without embodied experiences. Perhaps a time-saving and hassle-free child care. All are in the grip of ‘virtual world,’ taking too much from our costly time, with little or no return, rather impairing us in ‘real world.’ The anxiety is not limited to young ones, but the consequences are also disastrous to the elder generation also. Therefore the author calls for a ‘collective action’ in the Part-4 of the book. A collective action that is aimed at ‘Bringing Childhood Back to Earth’ from the dreamworld of ‘Growing up on Mars.’ It needs involvement of governments and tech companies, schools, and parents. Though Jonathan Haidt’s two earlier books ‘The Happiness Hypothesis’ and ‘The Righteous Mind’ remind about our cultural and biological foundations of mind, ‘The Anxious Generation' is a RED SIGNAL. This red signal is invisible to most people all over the world. Haidt takes a bold stand, grounded in theory and evidence in the social sciences, to make the red signal not only clearly visible, but makes a fervent plea to everyone to join in a task to reclaim human life.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,393 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Developmental Psychology (Books) #28 in Society & Culture (Books) #31 in Family & Relationships |
| Country of Origin  | United Kingdom |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (11,179) |
| Dimensions  | 12.9 x 2.5 x 19.6 cm |
| Generic Name  | Book |
| ISBN-10  | 1802063277 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1802063271 |
| Importer  | Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd |
| Item Weight  | 337 g |
| Language  | English |
| Net Quantity  | 750.00 Grams |
| Packer  | Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd |
| Paperback  | 400 pages |
| Publisher  | Penguin (2 January 2025); Penguin Random House Ireland Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good Read
*by D***H on 21 January 2026*

Must read for anyone trying to understand how the Gen Z and Gen Alpha brain works and the reasons behind it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Smartphone Fatally Re-wiring Childhood
*by R***A on 8 May 2025*

The book is a must read for every parent, and even for every citizen anywhere in the world. The author of THE ANXIOUS GENERATION, Jonathan Haidt, arrives at a horrifying conclusion from scientific studies that smartphones are fatally re-wiring childhood to cause epidemic of mental illness. The Great Re-wiring of Childhood began in this phone-based childhood—2010 to 2015. There were four fundamental harms to a child—sleep deprivation, social deprivation, attention fragmentation and addiction. Nearly 300 pages of text are accompanied by more than 50 pages of notes and references, a further guide for researchers and others interested in taking up these issues highlighted in the book. The book is about new changes occurring in the last decade—since 2010—especially in the ‘virtual world’ at the cost of damage to the ‘real world,’ in the minds of children. The threat by the virtual world on the real world of children is manifesting in the increasing trend in anxiety and depression among children mysteriously from about 2010. The virtual world re-wiring the tender brain-circuits for short-term benefits, which entails long-term costs to navigate in the real world, the interactions and relationships within the families, communities, and larger working environments. In other words, large curtailment in gain from real-life experiences, which is necessary for competition and cooperation in real life. A reader will have the first idea of these dangers of the dreamworld in the introduction: ‘Growing up on Mars.’ The threats become more serious when an ignorant mother herself places the iPhone in front of her infant, and the wide-eyed infant gulps milk or swallow food-bites without embodied experiences. Perhaps a time-saving and hassle-free child care. All are in the grip of ‘virtual world,’ taking too much from our costly time, with little or no return, rather impairing us in ‘real world.’ The anxiety is not limited to young ones, but the consequences are also disastrous to the elder generation also. Therefore the author calls for a ‘collective action’ in the Part-4 of the book. A collective action that is aimed at ‘Bringing Childhood Back to Earth’ from the dreamworld of ‘Growing up on Mars.’ It needs involvement of governments and tech companies, schools, and parents. Though Jonathan Haidt’s two earlier books ‘The Happiness Hypothesis’ and ‘The Righteous Mind’ remind about our cultural and biological foundations of mind, ‘The Anxious Generation' is a RED SIGNAL. This red signal is invisible to most people all over the world. Haidt takes a bold stand, grounded in theory and evidence in the social sciences, to make the red signal not only clearly visible, but makes a fervent plea to everyone to join in a task to reclaim human life.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Timely and Research -oriented!
*by S***. on 10 October 2025*

Teachers and parents must read it.

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