The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World

Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price

The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World

Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price
41 pages1-hour read
Nonfiction
Book
Middle Grade
Published in 2025

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Discussion Questions

General Impressions

Gather initial thoughts and broad opinions about the book.


1. Overall, what did you think of The Amazing Generation? Was there any information in the book that especially surprised you?


2. Do you agree or disagree with most of the authors’ arguments? What did you find most and least persuasive in their presentation?


3. Did the book help you understand tech and social media better? Explain why or why not.

Personal Reflection and Connection

Encourage readers to reflect on how the book relates to their own life or work and how its lessons could help them.


1. Reflect on your own relationship with social media. Are you an enthusiastic user, a sometime lurker, or someone who avoids social media entirely? How did the book help you reframe or reconsider your relationship with social media?


2. Some of the teens and young adults who were interviewed for the book claim that their social media and app use led to them feeling more isolated and dissatisfied. How do your online habits make you feel? In what ways has the online world benefited or harmed your life? 


3. Which character in the fictional storyline in the book did you relate to the most? Which character would you like to emulate in your own life and tech habits?


4. The authors urge readers to embrace offline activities more often. What sort of activities bring you joy in the real world? How could you make more time for them?


5. Do you think you and your generation would be better off without gaming, social media, and other similar apps? Why or why not?

Real-World Relevance

Prompt readers to explore how the book fits into today’s professional or social landscape.


1. Technology is a part of all of our lives. What do the authors believe we must do to have a healthy relationship with technology? Do you agree with their assessment?


2. Parents have very different approaches to screen time for their kids. Why do you think this is? Consider the generational differences between your grandparents, your parents, and you.


3. Social media has been a common part of people’s lives since the early 2000s. How does this book reflect growing concerns about how social media is affecting its users?

Practical Applications

Encourage readers to share and consider how the book’s lessons could be applied to their personal/professional lives.


1. What kind of career do you hope to have? How do you think your current relationship with technology would help or hurt your career?


2. Identify a chapter that made you think, and write down three insights you gained from reading it. Mind map how those insights might change your behavior, and the benefits you could experience from those changes.


3. How do you think your friends would respond to this book? Do you want to be a “rebel” and tell them about this book and its message? Why or why not?

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