Jonathan Haidt

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TED Talks Daily · How screens stole childhood — and how to get it back | Jonathan Haidt · 29 May 2026 podcast

But in the last few years, humanity has mobilized, and we are putting the genie back in the bottle.

Mothers were the first to organize and take action, but they were quickly joined by fathers and by a lot of Gen Z activist organizations, and also by many governors and many heads of state.

Together, we're getting phones out of schools around the world.

Teachers are so thrilled to get their students back, and one of the things that they tell us, almost the most common thing we hear, we hear laughter in the hallways again.

We're getting the age raised for social media to 16.

More than a dozen countries have already committed to following Australia's bold example.

And we're seeing parents letting go and trusting their children to ride bicycles with their friends and to do errands so that they can feel useful.

I'll give you one example.

A mom in Utah gave her seven-year-old son the Let Grow Challenge.

That's where you say to the kid, what's something that you think you can do on your own?

And her son said, I think I can go into a Chick-fil-A restaurant and get us lunch.

So she says, OK.

And in the video, you see the mother sitting in the car, you see the kid coming out of the store, and he's got the bags and he's got this huge smile, and he comes into the car and he says, that was so fun.

And then the mom says, were you nervous?

And he says, yeah, my legs are still shivering, but I want to do it again.

So these are the stories, these kinds of stories.

This is what most moves me and what most thrills me, because this movement is not primarily about technology.

It's about reclaiming childhood in the real world with real people.

So what on earth do we do about the robot teachers and all of the other future waves of technology that are going to push their way into childhood without adequate safety testing?

It sometimes seems completely overwhelming.

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