<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div data-test-id="message-view-body" class="ydp8ef7b639I_ZkbNhI ydp8ef7b639D_FY ydp8ef7b639W_6D6F" style="width: 767px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><div class="ydp8ef7b639msg-body ydp8ef7b639P_wpofO ydp8ef7b639mq_AS" data-test-id="message-view-body-content"><div class="ydp8ef7b639jb_0 ydp8ef7b639X_6MGW ydp8ef7b639N_6Fd5"><div id="ydp8ef7b639yiv3850698128"><div class="ydp8ef7b639yiv3850698128ydpd7111077yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">O<span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">ur book for May is </span><span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i> <span>The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness</span> </i>by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. </span><span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">The discussion will take place on Saturday, May 17 at 2:30 pm at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, located at 303 Washington Ave., New Haven. <font color="#cd232c" style="background-color: inherit;"><b>Note: This discussion returns our schedule to the 3rd Saturday of the month.</b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: center;" dir="" data-setdir="true"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:f2d5b54d-6065-6888-0976-f7cbd6fffc27@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="letter-spacing: -0.02em; max-width: 400px; width: 50%;" data-id="<f2d5b54d-6065-6888-0976-f7cbd6fffc27@yahoo.com>"></div><span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><br></span></div>From Amazon:</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?</div><div><br></div><div>In <i>The Anxious Generation</i>, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood…[and] how…“play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and…was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism.</div><div><br></div><div>“[An] important new book...The shift in kids’ energy and attention from the physical world to the virtual one, Haidt shows, has been catastrophic, especially for girls.” – Michelle Goldberg, <i>The New York Times</i></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><div>Hope to see you on the 17th,</div><div dir="ltr">Kevin (& Paula)</div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ydp8ef7b639jb_0 ydp8ef7b639X_6MGW ydp8ef7b639N_6Fd5"></div></div><div class="ydp8ef7b639H_7jIs ydp8ef7b639D_F ydp8ef7b639ab_C ydp8ef7b639Q_69H5 ydp8ef7b639E_36RhU" data-test-id="toolbar-hover-area" style="letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><div class="ydp8ef7b639D_F ydp8ef7b639W_6D6F ydp8ef7b639r_BN ydp8ef7b639gl_C" data-test-id="card-toolbar" style="width: 795px;"></div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>