(Completed Event - Resources Available) The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
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![The cover of the book the Amazing Generation by Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price shows a group of children bursting out of a cell phone]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1764014723/districtmpcsdorg/y20hxmyxdx8wsjtzewox/AmazingGenbookcovernotilt.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1764014723/districtmpcsdorg/y20hxmyxdx8wsjtzewox/AmazingGenbookcovernotilt.jpg","width":348}])
Parke Treadway
Last year the MPCSD community read and discussed The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. This year, we continue promoting childhood independence with an event based on the highly anticipated follow-up book The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World by Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price. We are pleased to be joined by Catherine Price as we learn how young people can be empowered to stand up for themselves by choosing a life not dominated by screens. Parents will leave with ideas for how to engage with their children as together we create a community where children grow, explore, enjoy unstructured time, and avoid becoming the next anxious generation.
Award-winning science journalist, speaker, and author Catherine Price is a leading voice in the national conversation about digital devices and how to create healthy relationships with technology. Her books include her bestsellers, How to Break Up With Your Phone and The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, and Catherine and her work have been featured in outlets including, The Best American Science Writing, NPR, The New York Times, Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Science, The Los Angeles Times, and TIME Magazine, among many others. She is also a former middle school teacher, the parent of a young child, and a core member of the team behind Jonathan Haidt's #1 NYT-bestselling book, The Anxious Generation. She writes the popular Substack newsletter, "How to Feel Alive," and her TED talk on fun has been viewed more than 5M times.
In all of her work, Catherine's ultimate goal is to help people of all ages scroll less, live more, and have fun.
Watch the event video (available to view until February 27, 2026).
Recommended resources: AmazingGeneration.com, Smartphones, Social Media, and Screens: A Resource Kit for Families, Catherine's Substack Newsletter "How To Feel Alive"
Recent article in the Menlo-Atherton High School student newspaper, M-A Chronicle: Four Bears. One Social Media Detox.