Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?(afterbabel.com)

133 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 100 comments

Bébé Bibliophile(ymeskhout.com)

32 points by Michelangelo11 2 years ago | 14 comments

Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play(afterbabel.com)

331 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 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.

Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood(afterbabel.com)

358 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 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.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 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.

Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis(jonathanhaidt.substack.com)

338 points by trevin 3 years ago | 291 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Jon Haidt and Peter Gray arguing that the decline of unsupervised free play is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis.