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☆ Can Instagram's new 'Teen Accounts' help improve youth mental health? Experts weigh in
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The feature, called Teen Accounts, is meant to address the harm social media can do to young peoples' mental health. This is a good first step, says Dr. Shannon Bennett, associate director of the center for youth mental health at NewYork-Presbyterian. "The opportunity cost while using social media is sleep or in-person socialization," she says. Experts agree the new features might net positive changes, but say its really too early to tell. In his best-selling book "The Anxious Generation" NYU social psychologist Johnathan Haidt also cited social media and smartphones as a major cause of youth loneliness.

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☆ Paris Hilton will not let her children have smartphones: 'Some kids are getting phones way too young'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The movement of parents concerned by their kids' smartphone use just gained an unlikely disciple: socialite and DJ Paris Hilton. Hilton isn't alone in thinking smartphones can cause damage to young kids. "The biggest effects of social media happened during puberty, especially early puberty," he says. No social media before age 16. "There's no clear evidence that giving children access to social media early is better able to prepare them for adulthood later on," Rausch says.

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☆ Kids need to play in the real world, not on their phones: NYU professor Jonathan Haidt
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailKids need to play in the real world, not on their phones: NYU professor Jonathan HaidtJohnathan Haidt, professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University, joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss his new book, “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness,” why he believes smartphone and social media addictions are destroying our children's lives, his take on recent campus protests, and more.

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☆ Do this 1 thing to curb your kid's anxiety today, says lead researcher behind 'The Anxious Generation'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Zach Rausch, lead researcher to Haidt and an associate research scientist at NYU-Stern School of Business, says kids who had access to social media and iPhones in elementary and middle school report higher levels of anxiety and depression. "The biggest effects of social media happened during puberty, especially early puberty," he says. To curb bullying, social comparison, and depression in adolescents, Haidt and Rausch crafted four suggestions:No smartphones for kids before high school — give them only flip phones in middle school. No social media before age 16. If you want to make a change today that will positively impact your child's health, Rausch says start by talking to your kids' friends' parents.

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