Screen-Smart Parenting: How to Find Balance and Benefit in Your Child's Use of Social Media, Apps, and Digital Devices

Author:   Jodi Gold ,  Tory Burch
Publisher:   Guilford Publications
ISBN:  

9781462515530


Pages:   314
Publication Date:   10 December 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Jodi Gold ,  Tory Burch
Publisher:   Guilford Publications
Imprint:   Guilford Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.366kg
ISBN:  

9781462515530


ISBN 10:   1462515533
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   10 December 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Foreword by Tory Burch 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 Resources

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Just as our mothers and fathers worried about too much TV, today's parents worry about their children getting lost in cyberspace....With Screen-Smart Parenting , Dr. Jodi Gold has provided the milestone book that will give important insight to every parent. --From the Foreword by Tory Burch, CEO, designer, and mother of three No one understands the digital landscape and its complex presence in our children's lives better than Jodi Gold. This book is a 'must read' for any parent who wants to protect their children while still giving them access to all of the benefits technology has to offer. Dr. Gold's realistic approach to navigating the cyber-culture our children live in is invaluable--she gives easy-to-follow and commonsensical advice. As parents, many of us are new to the digital world, while our children are naturals. This guide gives spot-on strategies for closing that gap, and making the whole family's approach to technology effortless. --Holly Phillips, MD, general internist, and CBS News Medical Contributor Dr. Jodi Gold has written the definitive guide to one of the most challenging issues facing parents today--raising kids in a digital age. Packed with information, and drawing on her wealth of experience as a mother and psychiatrist, Dr. Gold provides parents with a blueprint on how to cultivate wise media use at every stage of a child's development. Thoughtful, well researched, and fun to read, this a book that every parent should have at the top of their reading list. Urgently needed and extremely practical, it will be a godsend for all parents raising children today. --Ellen Braaten, PhD, author, Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up


Just as our mothers and fathers worried about too much TV, today's parents worry about their children getting lost in cyberspace....With Screen-Smart Parenting, Dr. Jodi Gold has provided the milestone book that will give important insight to every parent. --From the Foreword by Tory Burch, CEO, designer, and mother of three No one understands the digital landscape and its complex presence in our children's lives better than Jodi Gold. This book is a 'must read' for all parents who want to protect their children while still giving them access to all of the benefits technology has to offer. Dr. Gold's realistic approach to navigating the cyber-culture is invaluable--she gives easy-to-follow and commonsensical advice. As parents, many of us are new to the digital world, while our children are naturals. This guide gives spot-on strategies for closing that gap and making the whole family's approach to technology effortless. --Holly Phillips, MD, general internist and CBS News Medical Contributor Dr. Jodi Gold has written the definitive guide to one of the most challenging issues facing parents today--raising kids in a digital age. Drawing on her wealth of experience as a mother and psychiatrist, Dr. Gold provides parents with a blueprint on how to cultivate wise media use at every stage of a child's development. Thoughtful, well researched, and fun to read, this a book that all parents should have at the top of their reading list. Urgently needed and extremely practical, it is a godsend. --Ellen Braaten, PhD, author, Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up As a parent who lives much of my life online and is at the same time concerned about my children's media use, this is the book I've been waiting for. Here is a nonjudgmental, well-informed voice ringing out from the cacophony of anti-screen hysteria. Dr. Gold spells out in crystal-clear terms how we can help kids build the tech-savvy they need to become good digital citizens. Most of all, she hase


Just as our mothers and fathers worried about too much TV, today's parents worry about their children getting lost in cyberspace....With Screen-Smart Parenting , Dr. Jodi Gold has provided the milestone book that will give important insight to every parent. --From the Foreword by Tory Burch, CEO, designer, and mother of three


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Jodi Gold, MD, is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist in private practice and Clinical Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College. A nationally recognized expert, Dr. Gold speaks, writes, and makes media appearances on her developmental approach to parenting in the age of digital technology. She lives with her husband and three children in New York City.

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