An astonishing data-based essay about the anxiety problems of the Generations Z & Alpha caused by the social media. The author shows by means of plenty of data and analysis how the teenagers are negatively influenced by the continuous presence in their lives of the social media. He compares the play-based vs the phone-based childhood explaining how the former is more bound to the reality, while the latter to the virtuality. And consider the overprotection in the real world vs the underprotection in the virtual world as the major factor causing the issue. In particular the overexposure to the socials (due to the omnipresent smart phones) of the current teeenagers leads to a lack of real world stressors, which their antifragile minds require to wipe up properly. The patents' job is not to shape our childrens's minds; it's to let those minds explorer all the possibilities that the world allows. We can't make children learn, but we can let them learn. The parents should become better "gardeners" (those who create a space in which their children can learn and grow) in contrast to "carpenters" (who try to mold and shape their children directly).
