num_pages: 288
description: Blending scholarly evidence and the experiences of numerous families The Art of Screen Time is a well-researched and reassuring guide to raising kids in a world where technology is everywhere. -danah boyd author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensFinally there's a no-nonsense don't-panic evidence-based guide to one of the biggest challenges facing parents today: managing a world where screens are everywhere we look.With this book Anya Kamenetz--a journalist an award-winning expert on both education and technology and a mother of two young children--takes a refreshingly practical approach. She surveys both the experts and hundreds of fellow parents to find out how they really manage screensat home--for their children and themselves. 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.Realistic wise and disarmingly candid The Art of Screen Time shows us how to set aside our digital anxiety and create space for a happy healthy family life.
language: English
title: The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
publisher: PublicAffairs