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The art of screen time : how your family can balance digital media and real life / Anya Kamenetz.

by Kamenetz, Anya, 1980-

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PublicAffairs, 2018.

004.678083 K15a

Internet and children.

Internet and families.

Information technology -- Social aspects.

Internet addiction.

9781610396721 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Screen time : how your family can balance digital media and real life

ix, 266 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index.

Part I: Kids and screens -- Digital parenting in the real world -- The (sometimes) scary science of screens -- Emerging evidence -- You have the power: positive parenting with media -- An hour at a time: how real families navigate screens -- Screens at school -- Part II: Our own devices: parents and screens -- The mom with her phone at the playground -- Modern families: parents and screens -- The future of digital parenting -- TL;DR: the art of screen time in five minutes.

"Today's babies often make their debut on social media with the very first sonogram. They begin interacting with screens at around four months old. But is this good news or bad news? A wonderful opportunity to connect around the world? Or the first step in creating a generation of addled screen zombies? Many have been quick to declare this the dawn of a neurological and emotional crisis, but solid science on the subject is surprisingly hard to come by. Anya Kamenetz - an expert on education and technology, as well as a mother of two young children - takes a refreshingly practical look at the subject. Surveying hundreds of fellow parents on their practices and ideas, and cutting through a thicket of inconclusive studies and overblown claims, she hones a simple message, a riff on Michael Pollan's well-known "food rules": Enjoy Screens. Not too much. Mostly with others. This brief but powerful dictum forms the backbone of a philosophy that will help parents moderate technology in their children's lives, curb their own anxiety, and create room for a happy, healthy family life with and without screens. Journalist Anya Kamenetz is the lead digital education correspondent for NPR. She is the author of Generation Debt, DIY U, and The Test. She lives in Brooklyn"--Provided by publisher.

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