Igen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy - and Completely Unprepared For Adulthood - and What That Means For The Rest of Us - Jean M. Twenge

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The book discusses how today's youth are growing up in the age of smartphones and social media, spending less time with friends in person which may contribute to higher rates of anxiety, depression and loneliness. It also explores how Generation i spends their time, behaves and their views on topics like religion, politics and careers.

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iGen: Why Today'sSuper-Connected KidsAre Growing Up LessRebellious, MoreTolerant, Less Happy--and CompletelyUnprepared forAdulthood--and WhatThat Means for the Restof Us

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ByJean M. TwengeAtria Books

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iGen

is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens,and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastlydifferent from their Millennial predecessors, and from anyother generation.

With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, andemployers have an urgent need to understand today’s risinggeneration of teens and young adults.Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the firstgeneration to spend their entire adolescence in the age of thesmartphone. With social media and texting replacing otheractivities, iGen spends less time with their friends inperson—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct fromevery generation before them; they are also different in how theyspend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes towardreligion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely newways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different thingsfrom their lives and careers. More than previous generations, theyare obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patiencefor inequality.With the first members of iGen just graduating from college, we allneed to understand them: friends and family need to look out forthem; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to

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them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guidethem. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves asthey communicate with their elders and explain their views to theirolder peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and theworld.Atria Books

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