Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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The brain's changing even faster during puberty.
And then it slows down.
Late teens, it slows down.
It's kind of more or less done from a cortex by age 25.
You have to go through that developmental period.
If you say instead, we're gonna give you the childhood experiences of a cat, that would make no sense.
Your brain wouldn't come out right.
And so to say, oh no, we're gonna give you the childhood experience of a digital native.
No, don't do that.
So here's the thing.
Parents, I'll look right at that camera there.
Parents, if you want to prepare your child for success in the digital future, protect their brain development in the present from the ravages of a digital childhood.
Let them make real friends face-to-face, no AI friends.
Let them spend a lot of time with other kids.
Let them run and play.
If you put them on devices early, you are not giving them an advantage.
You are interfering with their brain development, and there is a chance that that effect will be long lasting.
Well, first of all, there certainly is no unfair targeting of Gen Z. I mean, we're all, you know, my kids are Gen Z. Most of us in this game have kids who are Gen Z or now Gen Alpha, born after about 2011 or so.
And so none of this is targeting, all of this is an attempt to turn around trends that are extremely alarming.
And as I've traveled around the world talking about this, what I found is that wherever I go, if there is a country in which kids have devices, meaning pretty much every country on earth,
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