Screenwise

Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World

By: Devorah Heitner PhD

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age.

Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers huge potential to our children - if parents help them. Using the foundation of their own values and experiences, parents and educators can learn about the digital world to help set kids up for a lifetime of success in a world fueled by technology.

Screenwise is a guide to understanding more about what it is like for children to grow up with technology and to recognizing the special challenges - and advantages - that contemporary kids and teens experience thanks to this level of connection. In it, Heitner presents practical parenting hacks - quick ideas that you can implement today that will help you understand and relate to your digital native. The book will empower parents to recognize that the wisdom they have gained throughout their lives is a relevant and urgently needed supplement to their kids' digital savvy and help them develop skills for managing the new challenges of parenting.

Based on real-life stories from other parents and Heitner's wealth of knowledge on the subject, Screenwise teaches parents what they need to know in order to raise responsible digital citizens.

©2016 Devorah Heitner (P)2016 Gildan Media, LLC

Very informative, not the typical no screen time

I found the holistic approach to screen time very useful. The screen time can be adapted for creatively

Relevant & Revelatory

I really enjoyed this book it was surprisingly engaging I thought it may be boring however I found myself relating well to the topics. This book can also be used as a reference guide to opening up conversations with my Children.

Good book! nice heartwarming story of courage.

I really enjoyed the story. I only would have liked to see a little more climax and more story at the end. I was shocked when it was over. I expected a lot more to the story than where it ended.

Thoughtful and Actionable

“Mentor v Monitor” and a host of actionable thoughtful recommendations for how to raise kids in the digital age.

Wow. This is the most disheartening parenting book I have ever read

I had just finished ‘Hold Onto Your Kids’ before starting this. As a parent of two successfully launched young adults, I was looking for some advice for parenting my youngest (a tween) through this ‘everything is digital age.’ This book agreed with all the problems the previous book pointed out, but seems to argue for much lighter coaching of our kids and almost no controls on their screen use - just advice in navigating all of it. Would we allow our kids to eat cookies as their main diet as long as they take their vitamins?