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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So basically, Haidt’s cohort did a shitty job raising their kids but he wants to blame it on the children instead ofntakignnreaponsibilitybfienti.  Classic boomer. [/quote]

Boomers are grandparents. You are looking to blame Gen x and millennials. [/quote]

Haidt turns 60 this year[/quote]

So born in 1963...cusp boomer but definitely a boomer.[/quote]

That was my point.[/quote]

Did you actually read his article?

It was not anti youth but citing the obvious …

Mother of 15 yo who has been poisoned by social media victim culture and gender identity confusion …[/quote]

NP.  I agree with the author and with you, PP.

I feel people are resisting the article’s main points because they do not want to accept them; they wish it were not so.

But it is.[/quote]

I wonder whether they are reading it at all … They are taking the author’s comment that internet age of adulthood should start at 16 literally and twisting obvious concerns about the negative impact of social media on our youth into a inter-generational blame game.

The stats speak for themselves - our youth are suffering intense mental illness problems/ eating disorders/ self harm and substance abuse. The wait list for teen psychiatrists is very long. Mental health facilities for teens are a booming business. They are insanely expensive and insurance routinely refuses to cover residential treatment comprised of evidence based approaches even when the need is clearly there. Ask me how I know.

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+1  It doesn't seem like many people commenting have read the article. I don't see Haidt's analysis as an indictment of Gen Z; it's more of an indictment of parents (me included) and society for not offering Gen Z the real-life experiences they need to gain resilience and standing 
by while performative social media replace those developmentally necessary experiences. You aren't paying attention if you can't see some merit to this insight. [/quote]

No need to waste time reading his drivel when we have real-life experience with Gen Z. Why would I listen to an old man who clearly doesn't interact with younger people? [/quote]

PP here. Did you miss the part where he has two teenagers? I'm a mother of multiple Gen Zs who sees truth in his words. Have you not noticed how many young people are struggling?[/quote]

Of course they’re struggling, they’re young people. Young people struggle. It’s what every coming of age book and movie from forever is about. This group is struggling more loudly because finally someone has given them a voice to say what every young person wishes they could have said - that the world that is laid out for them isn’t what they want for themselves. It’s a culture clash, period, but these kids are actually shaking things up in a way the older generations really didn’t or couldn’t. [/quote]

No really not the same.

I have much older children who graduated from university already and younger child who went through MS during pandemic.
Younger DC’s peers have many many more mental health issues. Older children and their friends report they are glad to have just missed out on ubiquitous social Media in their teen years. It is especially damaging for girls. [/quote]

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