Jonathan Haidt

You can definitely go phone-free in school.

So we're seeing schools all around the country saying, this is such a catastrophe for learning.

We see it in test scores.

We see it in discipline.

We're dealing with it at school by going phone-free.

Here's the new policy.

And in addition, I hope you'll consider...

rolling back the technology, giving kids a more play-based childhood, not giving them a phone so early.

So I think we are seeing that happen.

The key, again, is collective action.

You're going to find a lot more allies now than you would have a year ago.

Oh, yes.

There's an amazingly powerful one which costs zero dollars and is incredibly effective.

It's called the Let Grow Experience.

So I was so taken with Lenore Skenazy's work that I and a few others co-founded an organization called Let Grow.

So if you go to letgrow.org, you can sign up to download the kit for the Let Grow experience.

You can do this at home too, but it's especially powerful if you do it as a school.

So let's imagine a third grade class.

All the third grade, let's say, or second graders say, we're doing the let grow experience.

So you give them a printout of the instructions.