It’s very difficult to read articles with a topic that contains the words ‘children’ and ‘suicide’, but I believe that it’s important to bring attention to such aspects for future safety of our children!
I loved the Inner Workings post!! It reminded me of many moments in Anna Wiener's 'Uncanny Valley'. I fear you have to be pretty far removed from yourself and the real world to pursue a 'frictionless life'.
I am not surprised to see the conclusions in this article. I am an LMFT and an intensive care coordinator for Child Adolescent Mental Health in a large HMO. I see this in real life and parents struggling as these kids go in and out of hospitalization and other levels of intensive outpatient care. Those parents that try to limit or take away social media are sometimes successful, but many kids either feel more isolated or like any other addict, find creative ways to get around their parent’s restrictions. The question is, now that we have created this global addiction, what do we do about it?
I recommend Janisse Ray and her Substack Trackless Wild. Janisse has written several books including Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and The Seed Underground. I love her writing because she is very place-based, focusing a lot on Georgia and nautral places throughout the state, Including the Okefenokee Swamp. She offers writing and goal-setting sessions, some of which are free and some are paid.
I have kids and I see it as my job to protect them. My job to monitor their internet activity and my job to make sure they aren’t seeing inappropriate stuff. They don’t have Instagram. They don’t have tik tok. I don’t want to rely on the government to guide my parenting decisions because ultimately that leaves parents with someone to blame other than themselves
I was both happy and sad to see the mental health coverage about social media and teen girls. They aren't the only demographic affected by it, but I think it's probably true that teenage girls are impacted by social media in unique ways, or experience pressures at levels other groups aren't used to. Isn't that the main demographic, in America, being groomed for agreeableness and to allow men to invade their personal boundaries? That's when all the people-pleasing is usually inculcated. So that is a very important connection to point out. Thanks for highlighting it!
You have a good thing going here. Android and Apple are widely-used. Support both. I would be embarrassed if I worked at substack and saw someone trying to use this article on Android. Also known as unusable.
I am glad there are articles on Substack open to all. In general I view pay-for-news/opinion as I do concierge medicine-to be abhorred. What kind of society will be have if only the rich get news and diverse opinions?
An immodest but well-meant plug for my Saturday week-in-review, just out this morning. This week Minsk, the war and one, Biden in Europe, Nicola Sturgeon, Nikki Haley, the US, China and Japan and the Bucharest Nine. Plus, the UK's turnip scold and fat Spanish trains. It's called Common Sense and Whiskey: https://csandw.substack.com/p/what-just-happened-6
It’s very difficult to read articles with a topic that contains the words ‘children’ and ‘suicide’, but I believe that it’s important to bring attention to such aspects for future safety of our children!
Jon Haidt’s ‘stack, After Babel, is a whirlwind of data and statistics everybody should read, especially parents.
I loved the Inner Workings post!! It reminded me of many moments in Anna Wiener's 'Uncanny Valley'. I fear you have to be pretty far removed from yourself and the real world to pursue a 'frictionless life'.
I am not surprised to see the conclusions in this article. I am an LMFT and an intensive care coordinator for Child Adolescent Mental Health in a large HMO. I see this in real life and parents struggling as these kids go in and out of hospitalization and other levels of intensive outpatient care. Those parents that try to limit or take away social media are sometimes successful, but many kids either feel more isolated or like any other addict, find creative ways to get around their parent’s restrictions. The question is, now that we have created this global addiction, what do we do about it?
I recommend Janisse Ray and her Substack Trackless Wild. Janisse has written several books including Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and The Seed Underground. I love her writing because she is very place-based, focusing a lot on Georgia and nautral places throughout the state, Including the Okefenokee Swamp. She offers writing and goal-setting sessions, some of which are free and some are paid.
I have kids and I see it as my job to protect them. My job to monitor their internet activity and my job to make sure they aren’t seeing inappropriate stuff. They don’t have Instagram. They don’t have tik tok. I don’t want to rely on the government to guide my parenting decisions because ultimately that leaves parents with someone to blame other than themselves
wanted to do something easy and pleasant this week so I wrote about a weird obsession of mine -- lost works of art
https://open.substack.com/pub/drugsdontwork/p/lost-works?r=1ejxk&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
I was both happy and sad to see the mental health coverage about social media and teen girls. They aren't the only demographic affected by it, but I think it's probably true that teenage girls are impacted by social media in unique ways, or experience pressures at levels other groups aren't used to. Isn't that the main demographic, in America, being groomed for agreeableness and to allow men to invade their personal boundaries? That's when all the people-pleasing is usually inculcated. So that is a very important connection to point out. Thanks for highlighting it!
Thank you so much for featuring us!!! These other pieces are SO fascinating, what amazing company.
Sherry Turkle is also a great resource for research on the effects of social media on children
You have a good thing going here. Android and Apple are widely-used. Support both. I would be embarrassed if I worked at substack and saw someone trying to use this article on Android. Also known as unusable.
I have a question My bank is going digital do I just let it happen or go somewhere else
It is very regrettable for me, that I don’t speak English, only Spanish, this information is very interesting
I am glad there are articles on Substack open to all. In general I view pay-for-news/opinion as I do concierge medicine-to be abhorred. What kind of society will be have if only the rich get news and diverse opinions?
In a brazen act of self-promotion I would like to introduce starring the dark. In it I flex the felicities of poets and storytellers to bring international human rights law alive. Here it is: https://starringthedark.substack.com/p/introducing-starring-the-dark
An immodest but well-meant plug for my Saturday week-in-review, just out this morning. This week Minsk, the war and one, Biden in Europe, Nicola Sturgeon, Nikki Haley, the US, China and Japan and the Bucharest Nine. Plus, the UK's turnip scold and fat Spanish trains. It's called Common Sense and Whiskey: https://csandw.substack.com/p/what-just-happened-6