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amysutton's review
5.0
What a helpful and convicting book! There's no denying the research that has been done about the detriments of unstructured and continuous screen time. This book outlines the research about too much screen time, gives advice on social-emotional skills that kids need to have explicitly taught in the time of screen overuse, and ends with cinching advice to parents on how to take next steps to help their families. I loved that this was done from a Christian approach (that could still be useful to anyone), and I could relate and benefit greatly even from a teacher perspective.
The five (A+) social skills outlined in this book are affection, appreciation, anger management, apology and attention. These are all areas of concern I've noticed in students, but I had never fully connected them to gaming, screens, and technology. This book caused me to really reflect on how distracted I have been due to screens and ways I can help be better and teach better.
The five (A+) social skills outlined in this book are affection, appreciation, anger management, apology and attention. These are all areas of concern I've noticed in students, but I had never fully connected them to gaming, screens, and technology. This book caused me to really reflect on how distracted I have been due to screens and ways I can help be better and teach better.
williamsalley's review
5.0
Screen Kids is a book for any parent or guardian looking for answers on how to combat the epidemic of children being addicted to screens. This book is perfect for offering solutions to how to minimize screen usage in your children’s daily lives. It is not an anti-tech book but offers helpful solutions on how to help kids manage the time they spend on screens. I love how the book uses a number of scientific studies and data to help the reader understand the dangers of screens and how they affect a developing brain. Also included are solutions that also incorporate the love languages that Gary Chapman has written about in various books. Overall this book does a great job of giving parents real world solutions to help our kids take a step back from screens and enjoy the world around them.
jilliebeanreads's review
5.0
“Screen Kids” is the book I didn’t know I needed. But after reading it, I know we need to make technology-related changes in our household.
That is, if we want our sanity back.
The reason being is that our 7-year-old son is of the age where screens are what “light him up.” He’s got more access to screens than ever. Thanks to our pandemic stay-at-home orders, hot summer weather and distance learning. Then, of course, when we try to limit his screen time, all hell breaks loose. He’s got ALLLLLL the emotions and negative behavior. Anger, sadness, backtalk, etc. His room is a mess and he doesn't do his chores without a struggle. Some days I want to rip out every cord and disable the WIFI.
Does your child have too much screen time?
Is your child addicted to video games?
"Screen Kids" will help you answer those questions.
In it, authors Arlene Pellicane and Gary Chapman (The 5 Love Languages) share new NIH research. So this is a follow-up to their first book: “Growing up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-driven World.” The data helps us connect the dots between screen time, brain behavior and relationships.
We're giving our kids a drug and it affects their brain as if they were on cocaine. Grrrrrrrreat!
"Screen Kids" is in a digestible format that you can read in one sitting. I definitely recommend it if you have one or more kids aged 0 to 25. The only downside, for me, is all of the Christian-based references. But I just skipped through those parts.
Technology equals connection, but it’s a double-edged sword. Especially for kids (and parents!) who spend too much time staring at a screen. We need to be role models for our kids and many of us, myself included, are not cutting it.
Thank you to NetGalley and Moody Publishers for the electronic copy in exchange for my honest review.
That is, if we want our sanity back.
The reason being is that our 7-year-old son is of the age where screens are what “light him up.” He’s got more access to screens than ever. Thanks to our pandemic stay-at-home orders, hot summer weather and distance learning. Then, of course, when we try to limit his screen time, all hell breaks loose. He’s got ALLLLLL the emotions and negative behavior. Anger, sadness, backtalk, etc. His room is a mess and he doesn't do his chores without a struggle. Some days I want to rip out every cord and disable the WIFI.
Does your child have too much screen time?
Is your child addicted to video games?
"Screen Kids" will help you answer those questions.
In it, authors Arlene Pellicane and Gary Chapman (The 5 Love Languages) share new NIH research. So this is a follow-up to their first book: “Growing up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-driven World.” The data helps us connect the dots between screen time, brain behavior and relationships.
We're giving our kids a drug and it affects their brain as if they were on cocaine. Grrrrrrrreat!
"Screen Kids" is in a digestible format that you can read in one sitting. I definitely recommend it if you have one or more kids aged 0 to 25. The only downside, for me, is all of the Christian-based references. But I just skipped through those parts.
Technology equals connection, but it’s a double-edged sword. Especially for kids (and parents!) who spend too much time staring at a screen. We need to be role models for our kids and many of us, myself included, are not cutting it.
Thank you to NetGalley and Moody Publishers for the electronic copy in exchange for my honest review.
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