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Let Kids Be Loud(afterbabel.com)
93 points by trevin | 110 comments
The Death of Daydreaming(afterbabel.com)
587 points by isolli | 224 comments
An After Babel essay by Christine Rosen, introduced by Jon Haidt, on how smartphones eliminate boredom and interstitial time, and what is lost with daydreaming.
TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale(afterbabel.com)
474 points by cwwc | 471 comments
An After Babel Substack essay arguing that TikTok causes widespread harm to children and teens.
The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)
684 points by throwup238 | 627 comments
An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.
Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood(afterbabel.com)
358 points by throwup238 | 335 comments
After Babel essay by Zach Rausch, introduced by Jon Haidt, arguing that the decline of close-knit local communities drove the loss of play-based childhood.
Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play(afterbabel.com)
331 points by paulpauper | 308 comments
An After Babel Substack essay by Mariana Brussoni, with a preface by Jon Haidt, arguing that children need risk, fear, and excitement in play and that adult fears harm them.
The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)(afterbabel.com)
448 points by simonebrunozzi | 708 comments
After Babel post by Zach Rausch and Jon Haidt arguing that the early-2010s teen mental illness rise occurred simultaneously across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
