Then Call Your House and Senate Members! YOU ARE PERMITTED TO USE ALL OR PART OF ANY OF OUR EMAILS IN YOUR OWN EMAILS, TEXT MSGS, SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS, ETC.! Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders Sent Every Governor - Including Ohio Governor Mike DeWine - the Book and This Letter LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders sent a copy of Jonathan Haidt’s book, “The Anxious Generation,” to the governors of every U.S. state and territory along with a letter encouraging governors to come together to limit social media and screen use for kids and encourage outdoor play to combat America’s mental health crisis. A similar letter was sent to Arkansas state legislators. The text of the letter is below and can be found here. Dear Governor: America’s kids are facing a mental health crisis. I know this isn’t news to any of you. As governors, we’re all searching for ways to help our state’s children and reduce depression, anxiety, and suicide among our young people. Recent research shows us the driver of this crisis: phones and social media. The average American teen now spends nearly 5 hours a day on social media. Spending three or more hours a day on social media doubles kids’ risk of mental health problems. 46 percent of young teens say social media makes them feel worse about their body. Since smartphones and social media became widespread, suicide rates have tripled among young teens, self-harm among girls has gone up nearly 200%, and depression among teenagers has increased 150%. Teen math, reading, and science scores have dropped in the United States and other developed nations since 2012, while school alienation has risen across the board. Big Tech companies got American kids addicted to their products by preying on adolescent insecurities and basic human psychology. The result is a public health crisis that’s devastating childhoods and destroying lives. The statistics are grim. But there is a path forward. In recent years, a bipartisan group of states have enacted legislation to protect kids online. In Arkansas, we passed the Social Media Safety Act, which requires parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts. States have also pursued legislation to protect kids from social media advertising, enacted online privacy protections for kids, and required mandatory social media safety features for kids. Unfortunately, Big Tech-supported interest groups have blocked many of these laws and policies. Despite these setbacks, we must continue our work to protect kids. In the book I’ve sent you, The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, the author joins experts to offer commonsense recommendations, which I believe we should work together to promote and implement when possible: 1. No smartphones before high school 2. No social media before 16 3. Phone-free schools 4. More outdoor play and childhood independence It’s an agenda I plan to pursue, and I hope you read this book and join me. Millions of American kids have fallen into the dark sewer of social media and screen addiction. As governors, we need to come together and help save this generation. Sincerely, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Governor of Arkansas CALL GOVERNOR DEWINE'S OFFICE AT 614-644-4357 AND DEMAND THAT HE LEAD THIS EFFORT TO SAVE OUR CHILDREN!!! Saving our Children is a Bipartisan Issue!!! CALL YOUR HOUSE AND SENATE MEMBER AND DEMAND THAT THEY PASS THE FLORIDA BILL AND GET IT TO DEWINE TO SIGN!!! Social Media is KILLING our Children and Destroying our Nation's Future! LEGISLATORS AND CITIZENS MUST TAKE ACTION TODAY! • If you have not already done so Click Here to Watch the Video • Then Click here to READ Excellent Q&A about the Florida Child Protection Bill • Then Click Here is get the Text of the Florida Bill Just Change Florida to Ohio and PASS IT in the Ohio House and Senate NOW! • Patriots Call/Write to your House Rep AND your Senate Rep TODAY Demand that this Bill be Expedited and forwarded to Governor DeWine for Signature We can't make it any easier than that! Let's Get it DONE Together! FLORIDA PASSES BILL TO SAVE OUR CHILDREN! If you follow our podcast, last week I told you about the Amazing Video by Dr. Jonathan Haidt explaining what has happened to our Children since 2012 that is KILLING THEM and creating devastating mental problems. It was the introduction of the "smart phone" and social media! You MUST Watch it! In my podcast, I asked our members all over the nation to send that video to their State Representatives and Governor to pass legislation to SAVE OUR CHILDREN and our Future! Then, one of our members sent us the story that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature has ALREADY Passed a Bill to Ban Children 14 and Under from using social media!! You can read all about it here! We need to do the same thing in Ohio! We need to do it NOW!!! So we reached out to Representatives Ron Ferguson, Reggie Stoltzfus, Jerry Cerino, Kristina Roegner, Sarah Fowler, Beth Lear and others and ask them to watch the video and study the Florida Bill that was passed. We also heard that Representative Todd Young may have already introduced the Florida Bill in the Ohio House! We then reached out to Ohio Value Voters, CCV, the Ohio Christian Alliance, Ohio Freedom Action Network and other Liberty Groups asking for their support in passing Legislation and taking other action to SAVE OUR CHILDREN. I am asking YOU to watch this important video and share it with EVERYONE you know. This is NOT POLITICAL. It is critical to the future of our society. It's not just about legislation either. When you watch the video you will see things that YOU MUST DO for your Children and that YOUR SCHOOLS can do for our Children! Then I am asking you to read the article about the Florida Bill because it has a great question and answer section to help you and others understand the issue and the ramifications of passing legislation. We can stop the attacks on our Children NOW. There are NO EXCUSES NOT TO! Take Action NOW! Looking for Truth? You've Come to the Right Place! Use our New Chapters Video Player to Skip Directly to the Stories of Interest! 2024 is the Whole Ball Game Patriots & YOU Know it! We Need YOUR HELP to take back our Nation & State! 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