Over the past decade, something profound has shifted in childhood. Rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, and emotional dysregulation in children and teens have risen sharply—so sharply that it cannot be explained by better awareness alone. In The Anxious Generation , social psychologist Jonathan Haidt names what many parents and clinicians have been sensing for years: we have unintentionally rewired childhood itself. “We have overprotected children in the real world and un