Screen-Smart Parenting: How to Find Balance and Benefit in Your Child's Use of Social Media, Apps, and Digital Devices
SKU: GP-9781462515530
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As a practicing child psychiatrist and mother of three, Jodi Gold has a unique understanding of both the mind-boggling benefits and the serious downsides of technology. Dr. Gold weaves together scientific knowledge and everyday practical advice to help you foster your child's healthy relationship to technology, from birth to the teen years. You'll learn:
-How much screen time is too much at different ages.
-What your kids and teens are actually doing in all those hours online.
-How technology affects social, emotional, and cognitive development.
-Which apps and games build smarts and let creativity shine.
-How your own media habits influence your children.
-What you need to know about privacy concerns, cyberbullying, and other dangers.
-Ways to set limits that the whole family can live with.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Throw Away the Rule Book
I. The Brave New World
1. Understanding Your Family’s Digital Habitat: Cultivating Online Resilience and Digital Citizenship
2. Digital Milestones: The Facts Behind How Technology Affects Your Child’s Development
3. The Digital Landscape: What You Need to Know about the Tech Terrain
4. From the iPotty to Facebook Fame: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Digital Debates
II. Growing Up Digital
5. Downloading in Diapers: Managing Your Child's Digital World before Preschool - Ages 0-2
6. Digitods and Technotots: Everything You Need to Know about the Digital World You Learned in Kindergarten - Ages 3-5
7. Digital Magic Years: The Calm before the Digital Storm of Middle School - Ages 6-8
8. Welcome to the Frequent Flyer Club: Equipped with a Digital Boarding Pass and Ready to Take Off - Ages 8-10
9. Tweens and the Texting Revolution: Digital Media Use at Its Peak - Ages 11-14
10. Just Digital: Rewriting the Rules on Independence, Dating, Friends, and School - Ages 15-18
III. One Size Does Not Fit All
11. The Digitally Challenging Child: Modifying the Rules for Kids with ADHD, Anxiety, and Depression
12. Don't Take Away the Phone! The Nuts and Bolts of Your Family Digital Technology Agreement
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Winner (Second Place)—American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, Child Health Category
“This is a timely and very interesting book….Gold does a balanced job of pointing out the hazards of excessive online activity as well as pointing out many of its benefits. For younger children, she provides a good number of positive resources which parents can draw upon. The basic rules of good parenting also apply to the online world and Gold very clearly emphasizes the need for good boundaries both online and offline as well as for consistent, reasoned, and nonoverreactive parent management of Internet errors….For any parent who is concerned about their children’s digital experience and for those who wish for more knowledge of what their children might be getting into, this can be a recommended book. The price…is remarkably reasonable given the thought and expertise that went into this book.”
—Child and Family Behavior Therapy
Length: 314 pages
Copyright Date: 2014
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