Resources

Documentaries

• Screenagers:  https://www.screenagersmovie.com/

• Chasing Childhood: https://chasingchildhooddoc.com/

• Childhood 2.0

Applicable Movements/Conversations

• Anxious Generation

• Wait Until 8th

• Let Grow

• Surgeon General’s Warning

• Mothers Against Media Addiction

• Oprah Teen Mental Health Crisis Conversation 

• Smartphone Free Childhood, UK

• Common Sense Media

Podcasts

• Smartphones Rewired Childhood: Here’s how we fix it. - Bari Weiss, 3/25/24

• Jonathan Haidt - Joe Rogan, 3/19/24

• Trevor Noah: What Happens Next: Jonathan Haidt

• Mel Robbins: Dr. Shefali

Books

• Be the Parent, Please - Naoimi Schaefer Riley 

• How to Raise An Adult - Julie Lythcott-Haims

• The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt

• The Coddling of the American Mind - Jonathan Haidt

• Wired Child, Richard Freed 

Articles

• END THE PHONE-BASED CHILDHOOD NOW - The Atlantic, 3/13/24

• How to Delay the Age Kids Get Smartphones - After Babel, 4/3/24

• Study: young people would pay to have everyone delete TikTok and Instagram, Cybernews - 11/4/23

• Surgeon General Issues New Advisory About Effects Social Media on Mental Health - 3/23/23

• The Great Deterioration of Local Community And The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood – After Babel, 6/10/24

• Florida Kids Actually Talking to Each Other After State Bans Cell Phone Use In Schools - Fox News, 11/6/23

• How a Connecticut middle school won the battle against cellphones, Washington Post, 5/1/24

• If schools won’t ban kids’ cellphones some lawmakers say, they will, Stateline, 3/13/24

• This Florida School District Banned Cellphones. Here’s What Happened - The New York Times, 10/31/23

• The Effects of Phone-Free Schools: Collaborative Review - Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch, Updated 2/26/24