"Family Talk" about PCA's New Internet Enabled Device Policy (Part 2)

The Journey: PCA Parent Podcast

Guests: Jillian Bryant, Plano US Dean of Students, and Erin Williams, Plano US Counselor

If you’d like to watch this podcast, check out the PCA YouTube page.

PCA’s New “Internet Enabled Device” Policy

• Basically, PCA is going to be a “cell phone free” environment
• Much of the rationale for this decision is encapsulated in the research presented in Jonathan Haidt’s latest book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
  • Haidt writes about four foundational harms from a phone-based childhood:
    • Social deprivation
    • Sleep deprivation
    • Attention fragmentation
    • Addiction
  • Haidt also gives four foundational reforms:
    • No smartphones before high school
    • No social media before age 16
    • Phone-free schools
    • Bring unstructured “play” back for children

If you would like to review more of Haidt’s research, check out The Anxious Generation Research Website that goes beyond the book.

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