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A review by hellhoundharry
Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids — And How to Break the Trance by Nicholas Kardaras
2.0
While this is a subject that has been of interest to me for about a year now, I feel this book didn't bring anything new to the table to me. Probably because I have been interested in the subject for a year or so.
My biggest pet peeve with this book was how often Nicholas doesn't talk about the cause of addiction. In his chapters on computer games, he talks a lot about how addiction manifests itself, we get some information from unnamed experts about why it's an addiction.
But he never asks himself why do people become addicted? I mean if we take a kid from the suburbs with good grades, good family and a nice social life. And he gets hooked on playing Call of Duty. Why did he choose to play it for this and that many hours instead of hanging out with his friends?
The answer that Nicholas provide is that as an addiction , there is no real logical reason why one becomes addicted... That may be so, but it's not like a person just sits down by the computer one day and suddenly BOOM, he's addicted.
Like it's with people who become addicted to heroin. There was always a reason to why they turned to heroin, right?
My biggest pet peeve with this book was how often Nicholas doesn't talk about the cause of addiction. In his chapters on computer games, he talks a lot about how addiction manifests itself, we get some information from unnamed experts about why it's an addiction.
But he never asks himself why do people become addicted? I mean if we take a kid from the suburbs with good grades, good family and a nice social life. And he gets hooked on playing Call of Duty. Why did he choose to play it for this and that many hours instead of hanging out with his friends?
The answer that Nicholas provide is that as an addiction , there is no real logical reason why one becomes addicted... That may be so, but it's not like a person just sits down by the computer one day and suddenly BOOM, he's addicted.
Like it's with people who become addicted to heroin. There was always a reason to why they turned to heroin, right?