Norwell Digital Anxiety Project

04/09/2026

This bill has finally come together: No phones in p***c schools and no social media for kids under 14. This is a win.

After meeting at the State House for over 8 hours on Wednesday, Massachusetts lawmakers voted yes to a bill that would restrict social media usage for teens and children and ban the use of cell phones in schools.

01/27/2026

Touch snow. It’s good for the heart, good for the soul.

12/31/2025

Although the results should be self-evident, this article documents why school phone bans help kids learn.

When the screens are out of the way, kids are back to being kids—without the temptation to zone out electronically.

12/11/2025

Australia’s initiative to save teens from the effects of social media is rolling out, bumpy, but saving lives. Why would any society deny the youth the benefits of adolescence? We should do the same.

The social media accounts of Australians aged under-16 must be deactivated, with companies facing fines for not complying.

12/08/2025

In Australia, social media will no longer deny kids under 16 their adolescence.: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, X, Facebook. Great!

With the social ban coming into effect by December 2025, we’re here to answer your questions about what it is and how it will impact you.

11/25/2025

Haidt asked ChatGPT how it would destroy America’s youth. Its answers were unsettling—and all too familiar.

I asked ChatGPT how it would destroy America’s youth. Its answers were unsettling—and all too familiar, writes Jonathan Haidt.

07/08/2025

Looks like legislation to get these dopamine drips (phones) out of the schools is advancing. This is progress! This is good.

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07/01/2025

A parent speaking about digital ubiquity.

A mother and former teacher sums up in 3 minutes what happened when schools became "Silicon Valley profit centers”

06/30/2025

In Free Speech Coalition vs Paxton, the Supreme Court allowed Texas to require age verification to access p**n sites. This is huge. This will protect young boys from these sites - it's mostly boys. Other states are actively reviewing similar requirements. The tech is easy, and now, so is the law.

Holding: A Texas law requiring certain commercial websites publishing sexually explicit content that is obscene to minors to verify that visitors are 18 or older only incidentally burdens the protected speech of adults and survives intermediate scrutiny under the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clau...

06/17/2025

Senate president Spilka wants Massachusetts to continue its historically strong educational systems by getting cell phones out of our schools.

Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka is calling for lawmakers to consider making schools cellphone-free

05/05/2025

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04/21/2025

Virginia joins the growing list of states that recognize the damage done by smartphones in schools. K-12, phone free. Congratulations Virginia.

On the evening of September 19, the First Lady and Dr. Haidt convened a fireside chat and discussed the findings of Haidt’s book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness and how it informs our communities and schools in limiting social m...