The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age Author: Catherine Steiner-Adair EdD. Teresa H. Barker | Language: English | ISBN:
B009NF6GT2 | Format: PDF
The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age Description
Have iPads replaced conversation at the dinner table?
What do infants observe when their parents are on their smartphones?
Should you be your child's Facebook friend?
As the focus of family has turned to the glow of the screen—children constantly texting their friends, parents working online around the clock—everyday life is undergoing a massive transformation. Easy availability to the Internet and social media has erased the boundaries that protect children from the unsavory aspects of adult life. Parents often feel they are losing a meaningful connection with their children. Children are feeling lonely and alienated. The digital world is here to stay, but what are families losing with technology's gain?
As renowned clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair explains, families are in crisis around this issue, and even more so than they realize. Not only do chronic tech distractions have deep and lasting effects, but children desperately need parents to provide what tech cannot: close, significant interactions with the adults in their lives. Drawing on real-life stories from her clinical work with children and parents, and her consulting work with educators and experts across the country, Steiner-Adair offers insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater under-standing, authority, and confidence as they come up against the tech revolution unfolding in their living rooms.
We all know that deep connection with the people we love means everything to us. It's time to look with fresh eyes and an open mind at the disconnection we are experiencing from our extreme device dependence. It's never too late to put down the iPad and come to the dinner table.
- File Size: 679 KB
- Print Length: 389 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062082426
- Publisher: Harper (August 13, 2013)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009NF6GT2
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Dr. Steiner-Adair has put her finger on this crisis of why kids and parents are so isolated from one another in our info age. Better yet she names the problem and gives helpful advice to parents and teachers in how to solve the problem. The stakes are high. If I were still heading a school, I'd make this timely book required reading for parents, trustees, a d faculty.
Dorothy A. Hutcheson
Head of School Emerita
The Nightingale-Bamford School
New York, NY
By Edward L Hutcheson
I loved this book! It is insightful, compassionate, and at times even funny with a wealth of information to help us navigate keeping our kids safe and healthy in our ever-changing technological world. Chapter by chapter the author addresses different stages of child development and the technological challenges that they are often confronted with. Her extensive research and wide range of case studies make for an interesting and intelligent read. Texting, sexting, online bullying, addiction, the world of social media, and the easy access to porn or other inappropriate materials on the web are all addressed with constructive strategies to help adults guide the young people in their lives through this overwhelming and often scary social (and asocial!) world of technology.
By Maggie
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