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I read the other day: that unhappiness among the world’s young people has grown to the point where — even though they have their entire lives ahead of them — they are less joyful about things than old-timers who can see the end of the runway up ahead.
In his bestselling book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness,that the one-two punch of over-protective parenting and “phone-based childhood” are leading to a “tidal wave of suffering” among the young. This might help change a startling fact contained in the latest Statistics Canada report on cellphone use. Some 88 per cent of Canadians between the ages of 15 and 34 pick up their cellphones at least once an hour with nearly half of them touching their phones every 15 minutes.
Other provinces are sure to follow. While stopping short of predicting an absolute ban on cellphone use in Nova Scotia schools, Education Minister Becky Druhan said this week that the government is working on a cellphone-use policy for classrooms. “You can’t just take away their digital babysitter, then expect them to just get better when you pull it away,” Adam Bienenstock, told me in an interview.“The real job is not to just make stuff that looks pretty,” he told me. “It is to create things where their senses are fully engaged so that their tongues are sticking out and in the moment.”Getting outside, like he used to when he was a kid, does that. Outdoor play does other things too, he said.
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