The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life Audiobook (Free)

Finally, an evidence-based, don’t-panic guide from what to do about kids and screens.

Today’s babies often produce their debut on social networking with the very first sonogram. They begin interacting with displays at around four weeks old. But is this very good news or poor news? An excellent opportunity to connect around the world? Or the first step in making a era of addled display screen zombies?

Many have been quick to declare this the dawn of a neurological and emotional turmoil, but solid technology about about The Artwork of Screen Time: How YOUR LOVED ONES Can Balance Digital Press and Real Life the subject is surprisingly hard to come by. In The Artwork of Screen Time, Anya Kamenetz–an expert on education and technology, and a mother of two youthful children–takes a refreshingly practical go through the subject matter. Surveying hundreds of fellow parents on the practices and suggestions, and slicing 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 assist parents average technology within their children’s lives, curb their own anxiety, and create room for any happy, healthy family life with and without displays.