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Beth Greenfield

'The iPad is not TV' and 2 other urgent lessons about kids and screen time from the 'Anxious Generation' author

A child lying down holding up a glowing tablet (Credit: Getty Images)

Social psychologist and New York University professor Jonathan Haidt is the author of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, which has remained on the New York Times bestseller list since it was published one year ago. 

“It has struck a chord,” said Ezra Klein Show host Ezra Klein on Tuesday’s episode of the podcast, which featured Haidt as a guest for an hour-and-13-minute discussion on the endless parenting struggle of trying to keep kids off screens.

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