Jonathan Haidt

Oh, no, no, no. I don't know that I have.

Oh, no, no, no. I don't know that I have.

Lenore and others have been saying for years, we are vastly overprotecting our kids. So I'm 62, you're like 50. Wait, Monica, if I may ask, are you a millennial? I'm millennial, yeah. 37. So older millennials and up, we almost all had free range childhoods. Now we grew up during a crime wave. There was a lot of crime in the 70s and 80s. But kids went out to play.

Lenore and others have been saying for years, we are vastly overprotecting our kids. So I'm 62, you're like 50. Wait, Monica, if I may ask, are you a millennial? I'm millennial, yeah. 37. So older millennials and up, we almost all had free range childhoods. Now we grew up during a crime wave. There was a lot of crime in the 70s and 80s. But kids went out to play.

Lenore and others have been saying for years, we are vastly overprotecting our kids. So I'm 62, you're like 50. Wait, Monica, if I may ask, are you a millennial? I'm millennial, yeah. 37. So older millennials and up, we almost all had free range childhoods. Now we grew up during a crime wave. There was a lot of crime in the 70s and 80s. But kids went out to play.

It was like, of course you're going to go out and play. What are you going to do? Sit and watch TV all day long? In the 90s, the crime wave ends. Life gets much safer. Drunk driving gets under control. But that's exactly the decade when we freak out about child abduction. I mean, people literally, now they won't Let their seven-year-old go two aisles over in the grocery store.

It was like, of course you're going to go out and play. What are you going to do? Sit and watch TV all day long? In the 90s, the crime wave ends. Life gets much safer. Drunk driving gets under control. But that's exactly the decade when we freak out about child abduction. I mean, people literally, now they won't Let their seven-year-old go two aisles over in the grocery store.

It was like, of course you're going to go out and play. What are you going to do? Sit and watch TV all day long? In the 90s, the crime wave ends. Life gets much safer. Drunk driving gets under control. But that's exactly the decade when we freak out about child abduction. I mean, people literally, now they won't Let their seven-year-old go two aisles over in the grocery store.

Because what if they're kidnapped in the grocery store? It was clear that the overprotection had something to do with this. But the overprotection was kind of gradually implemented in the 80s and 90s. And the mental health crisis hit suddenly in 2012, 2013. So there was something missing from our analysis in the column.

Because what if they're kidnapped in the grocery store? It was clear that the overprotection had something to do with this. But the overprotection was kind of gradually implemented in the 80s and 90s. And the mental health crisis hit suddenly in 2012, 2013. So there was something missing from our analysis in the column.

Because what if they're kidnapped in the grocery store? It was clear that the overprotection had something to do with this. But the overprotection was kind of gradually implemented in the 80s and 90s. And the mental health crisis hit suddenly in 2012, 2013. So there was something missing from our analysis in the column.

So in the United States, we have several long running, very good nationally representative studies. Most countries don't have this.

So in the United States, we have several long running, very good nationally representative studies. Most countries don't have this.

So in the United States, we have several long running, very good nationally representative studies. Most countries don't have this.

one of the ones that a lot of us rely on is called the monitoring the future study it began with just high school seniors not every high school senior but they had i don't know if they identified a few hundred high schools a few thousand high schools so it began just high school seniors that asked them a bunch of questions including i feel anxious every day i can't remember what the phrasing is but here's one of them that i remember the phrasing of is i feel that my life is useless and roughly nine percent of them agreed with that statement plus or minus a bit from the 90s through 2010 so

one of the ones that a lot of us rely on is called the monitoring the future study it began with just high school seniors not every high school senior but they had i don't know if they identified a few hundred high schools a few thousand high schools so it began just high school seniors that asked them a bunch of questions including i feel anxious every day i can't remember what the phrasing is but here's one of them that i remember the phrasing of is i feel that my life is useless and roughly nine percent of them agreed with that statement plus or minus a bit from the 90s through 2010 so

one of the ones that a lot of us rely on is called the monitoring the future study it began with just high school seniors not every high school senior but they had i don't know if they identified a few hundred high schools a few thousand high schools so it began just high school seniors that asked them a bunch of questions including i feel anxious every day i can't remember what the phrasing is but here's one of them that i remember the phrasing of is i feel that my life is useless and roughly nine percent of them agreed with that statement plus or minus a bit from the 90s through 2010 so

So we have this long running, it goes back to the 70s, and then they added in 8th and 10th graders sometime in the 90s. So we have these long running data sets, 8th, 10th, and 12th graders. And so we can see, one of them is, sometimes I like to do things just because they're a little bit dangerous. Teenagers are risk takers. And so the boys, especially, say yes.

So we have this long running, it goes back to the 70s, and then they added in 8th and 10th graders sometime in the 90s. So we have these long running data sets, 8th, 10th, and 12th graders. And so we can see, one of them is, sometimes I like to do things just because they're a little bit dangerous. Teenagers are risk takers. And so the boys, especially, say yes.

So we have this long running, it goes back to the 70s, and then they added in 8th and 10th graders sometime in the 90s. So we have these long running data sets, 8th, 10th, and 12th graders. And so we can see, one of them is, sometimes I like to do things just because they're a little bit dangerous. Teenagers are risk takers. And so the boys, especially, say yes.