since then prince harry and meghan markle Since leaving their royal roles in 2020, they have added the influence of the digital world to their mental health advocacy work, and in recent weeks have been promoting one of their biggest initiatives to date, the Archewell Foundation Parents Network. . To commemorate World Mental Health Day, prince harry Interview with a social psychologist Jonathan Hite About his latest bestseller: anxious generationinvestigate the correlation between children’s mental health problems and social media use.
During the interview, Harry shared some thoughts on the impact technology has on children. “In many cases, smartphones have taken away, and continue to take away, young people’s childhoods,” the prince said. “This is one of the issues I have. We’re both dads, and these apps are meant to keep our kids online for as long as possible while scrolling around without really thinking. ” Harry added that he felt change was possible because of his parents’ active efforts. “More and more people are standing up to these companies, including parents, mostly parents, and saying, ‘No, this has to change, not when it comes to my child.'”
The Archewell Parents Network, announced by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in August, provides trauma-informed peer support to parents whose children have been victimized online. In founding the network, Archewell relied on research into the effects of social media on children. An anxious generation.
In my conversation with Hite on World Mental Health Day, he recalled some of the ideas Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan mentioned when they were interviewed by CBS about the inspiration for the show. “I’ve said in the past that at least to some extent, families and parents knew their children were safe under their own roof,” Harry told Hite. “I can’t say that anymore.”
This conversation coincided with the announcement of several different Archewell-funded projects related to social media and mental health. Archewell this week released its annual Insights report, which discusses the results of conversations Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and their staff have had with teens around the world. On Friday, the nonprofit organizations Girls Inc. and #HalfTheStory announced that Archewell is helping fund a digital wellness program called Social Media U that will reach middle school girls across the country. To celebrate the project, Meghan visited Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara and spoke about her own experiences with social media bullying.
