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Mar 2024
52m 43s

The Anxious Generation with Jonathan Hai...

DR. BECKY KENNEDY
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Social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, joins Dr. Becky to give parents hope that we can end phone-based childhood and restore a more humane one. 
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