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~THE PAGE TURNERS~
Monday June 15, 2026 • 10:00 a.m. • At

Tryon Coffee House

62a N Trade St, Tryon, NC 28782, NC 28722

The Anxious. Generation.

By: Jonathan Haidt

How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental
Illness is a 2024 book by Jonathan Haidt which argues that the
spread of smartphones, social media, and overprotective parenting
have led to " rewrigting " of childhood and a rise in mental illness.

Haidt argues that the combination of the decline of play-based childhoods, exacerbated by what edescribes as overprotective parents, and increasin smartphone use has been harmful to children since

the late 2000s. In an interview during the Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival, he advocates banning
smartphones in schools, arguing for feature phones with limited features instead.

Here’s to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They are the unsung heroes in a world at war with itself. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible.

Look for them in this present darkness. Light your candle with their flame.

And then go. Build bridges. Hold hands. Bring light to a dark and desperate world.

Be the hero you are looking for. Peace is possible. It begins with us.

~L. R. Knost~

Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, lest the darkness overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes. 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”