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Jonathan Haidt

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TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

We didn't know any better.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

Now, in retrospect, we should have just given him a phone watch or a basic phone.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

And that's what we did with my daughter, who's three years younger.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

I gave her a big pink, a gizmo watch.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

And in third grade, she loved it.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

And I could send her out in third or fourth grade.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

I could send her out into the park, out to get bagels.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

So we at least did that for my daughter.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

The place where I did hold the line is on social media.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

I said, no way, you're not getting social media, at least until high school.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

But both kids, you know, they accepted that.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

And my daughter, when she then was in seventh grade, she said that she was actually glad she wasn't on Instagram because she could see what it does to girls.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

It's a terrible thing to take 11- and 12-year-old girls and make them be conscious of their face, their skin, their body, constantly, all day long, having people comment on it.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

It's a horrible thing to do to girls.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

Yeah.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

So because my wife and I got to know a woman named Lenore Skenazy, who wrote a book called Free Range Kids.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

I recommend this to everybody.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

Free Range Kids.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

Oh, good.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club | Are smartphones ruining childhood? | Jonathan Haidt

And your kid, what you said, you have three daughters, you said?