"This study…does NOT show that smartphones are beneficial to children," Jonathan Haidt told me on X last week. He was responding—in a somewhat baffling way—to my post about a new survey of ...

For answers, I reached out to Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at NYU and the author of The Anxious Generation. For years, Haidt has been begging parents and schools to prohibit smartphones ...

[Jonathan Haidt: End the phone-based childhood now] The show raises questions for parents about how to monitor, or restrict, their kids’ use of devices and social media. (The first and fourth episodes ...