Taking Back Childhood from Phones—Finally

Jonathan Haidt: An Update on Efforts to Take Childhood Back from Phones and Social Media

Taking Back Childhood from Phones—Finally

The Anxious Generation was published one year ago today. Our plan was to promote the book in the spring, take the summer off to recharge, then get to work in September on Jon’s next book, a deeply depressing investigation of technology’s effects on democracy.But that’s not what happened. Instead, the book catalyzed a movement around the world. Most spectacularly, schools, states, and entire countries implemented phone-free school policies, and A…

The bubble wrap envelope and the phones kept at the school gate will finally be replaced by a lockable safe after last fall's decree.

Mobile phone storage cabinets made by prisoners have arrived in schools - After the envelopes and storage boxes, a final solution to the government's school regulations may come.

Several schools have already installed grey safes where students can put their mobile phones, which they have not been allowed to use during school hours since last autumn. Although neither the Ministry of the Interior nor the school districts are making a big fuss about it, the safes are being made in Sopronkőhida. School furniture has been made by convicts for a long time, and they don't cost much.