Jonathan Haidt

It's as simple as this.

If you're a parent listening to this, and you have kids under the age of 12, let's say, just reach out to two other parents of your kids' friends and say,

we want to do the four norms.

We want to do the four norms from the anxious generation.

Are you with me?

And they probably will be with you.

The four norms are no smartphone till high school, around 14, no social media till 16, phone-free schools, and so parents can push the school to go phone-free, and the fourth is

is far more independence, free play, and responsibility in the real world.

That's the hardest one because that requires us to change.

But it's the most important in that if we're going to take the screens, the 10 hours a day of screen time, take that away from kids, we have to give them back an exciting childhood.

Yes, they certainly could make changes, but they're in a collective action trap, too.

We know this from Francis Haugen, who brought out the Facebook files.

Facebook is actively recruiting underage kids.

They really need those kids.

And they know that if they were to crack down, those kids would just go to TikTok.

So the tech company certainly could solve this, but they're in a collective action problem, too, because if one of them does the right thing, then the kids will just lie about their age and go somewhere else.

Also, Congress gave them immunity.

The courts have interpreted Section 230 very broadly so that if your kids are harmed by anything that they saw online, well, Section 230 says you can't sue the company.

So these are the biggest, most powerful, richest companies in the world.

They've been given free reign to own our kids' childhood.