Family Guide to Screen Life Balance Links

General Links

• The Amazing Generation

  • Amazon Reviews

• How to Break Up with Your Phone

Housekeeping (pg. 4)

• Alarm Clocks

Suggested Smartphone/Social Media Roadmap (pg. 5)

Recommended Basic Phones/Smartphone Alternatives

• Gabb

• Bark

• Pinwheel

• Troomi

• The Light Phone

• Gizmo Watch (Verizon)

• Gabb Wireless Watch

• Garmin Watch

• Dumbwireless (use code SCREENLIFEBALANCE for 5% off)

Family Tech Guidelines (pg. 6-7)

• The Amazing Generation Amazon Reviews

• Kindle Paperwhite Kids

• Brick (use code CATHERINEPRICE for 10% off)

• 3rd-party family protection plan:

  • Canopy

  • Bark

  • Verizon Smart Family

  • T-Mobile Family Mode

  • ATT Secure Family App

• Guide to Parental Controls (a comprehensive guide put together by Protect Young Eyes)

Day 2: The Family 360 (pg. 13-15)

• Tronick’s Still Face Experiment

• Parents See Impact of Screen Time on Babies, Toddlers (from 60 Minutes special)

Day 3: “Free” Apps Aren’t Free (pg. 16-19)

• Landline Phones

  • Ooma

  • Tin Can

• Free preview of The Amazing Generation

• The Amazing Generation Discussion Guide

• Sean Parker, Chamath Palihapitiya – Facebook is ‘Ripping Apart Society

• I Make Video Games. I Won’t Let My Daughters Play Them

• Why You Should Spend Less Time with Your Kids (Lenore Skenazy TED Talk)

• Let Grow

Days 6-7 (pg. 26-27)

• Why Having Fun Is the Secret to a Healthier Life (Catherine Price TEDTALK)

• The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again

Further Reading (pg. 30)

Recommended Books:

• How to Break Up With Your Phone

• The Amazing Generation

• The Anxious Generation

• 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World (Jean Twenge)

• Childhood Unplugged (Katherine Martinko)

• The Tech Exit (Clare Morell)

• The Screen Strong Solution (Melanie Hempe)

Recommended Articles and Blog Posts:

• TikTok is Harming Children on an Industrial Scale

• Snapchat is Harming Children on an Industrial Scale

• It’s Not Just a Game Any More (about Roblox and online gaming)

• Meta’s AI Companion Policy is Outrageous

Kids, Smartphones and Social Media: The Risks and the Solutions

The following is a talk I did for parents at my daughter’s school. Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, referred to it as “the talk every parent should watch” and “the video you should share with the parents of your kids’ friends.” Please feel free to do so! (The more people hear its message, the better.)

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