The anxious generation: are they (and we) doomed?

Everyone from the Surgeon General to the mom next door is worried about anxiety and mental illness in our kids. Does Jonathan Haidt have the answer?

Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness is on the NYT Best Seller List and he’s all over the media. A world of anxious parents was waiting for this book. But does he have it right?

Melinda Wenner Moyer, author of the most popular Substack on parenting, has an opinion.…