BIG DISCONNECT: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age - Tapa blanda

"Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair has her finger on the pulse of the social and emotional challenges kids face in today's 24/7 media culture. Take her insight to heart. As parents, we can help our kids walk the thin line between the perils and possibilities of digital life."--James P. Steyer, CEO and Founder, Common Sense Media

"This is a must read for parents and educators. Parents will embrace Steiner-Adair's step-by-step solutions, focused on building deeper and more meaningful family relationships; teachers will better understand the need to manage the double-edged sword of technology as a tool for learning."--Nanci Z. Kauffman, Head of School, Castilleja School, Palo Alto, CA

"This riveting piece of journalism . . . chronicles how new technology has disrupted family life. Parents pacify infants with iPhones, toddlers play violent games and pre-teens are sexting. The book offers no easy answers but gently encourages all of us who lack the discipline to unplug."--Wall Street Journal, Best Nonfiction of 2013

"Psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair says tech-and self-absorption disappoints and disregards our children."--USA Today

"An important guide to an occasionally overlooked aspect of modern parenting."--Kirkus Reviews

"Do your kids a favor and read this important book."--Christian Science Monitor

"Catherine Steiner Adair with great wisdom, and compassion for our confusion, helps lead us out of this technological thicket. . . . A mandatory read for our own sake as well as the sake of our children."--Madeline Levine, PhD, author of Teach Your Children Well and The Price of Privilege

"Finally, a book that comprehensively answers the question parents everywhere have been struggling with: How to raise happy, creative, caring kids in the age of screens? The Big Disconnect is not just a smart book, it's a very, very wise one."--William Powers, author of Hamlet's Blackberry

"Those who haven't spent much time 'IRL' with their kids lately will recognize their own households in the pages of The Big Disconnect. . . . [Catherine Steiner-Adair] wants us to reclaim the immemorial rhythms of the hearth and shield our children from the...digital age."--Wall Street Journal

"This is an unsettling but necessary book, confirming what parents probably already know but do their best not to think about. . . . Steiner-Adair provides helpful suggestions for parents seeking to limit tech time and re-engage with their children."--New York Times Book Review

An internationally recognized clinical psychologist, drawing on real-life stories from her work, offers insight and advice to help parents successfully navigate today's technologically advanced world and turn the focus back to family and meaningful relationships. Reprint.