Parenting Generation Screen: Guiding Your Kids to Be Wise in a Digital World
Colorado Springs (CO): Focus on the Family Publishing (2021), 196 pp.
ISBN 978-1-64607-025-1 (print); 978-1-68428-325-5 (online)
Signature commbox: 70-Children/Youth-E 2021
"Prioritizing connection over correction, 'Parenting Generation Screen' is a guide for parents that will equip you with key questions and conversations to help you process screen limits with and for your kids. You’ll learn how to dialogue in meaningful ways about social media, entertainment, and screen time so your children can learn to be wise in the digital world. Jonathan McKee speaks worldwide and writes about technology and social media for families, and has three kids of his own. In Parenting Generation Screen, he addresses such questions as: At what age should my child get a phone or screen? Can my child have a phone in their bedroom? How does social media affect my teenager’s mental health and sleep? What dangers are really lurking on social media? How can moms and dads best use parental controls? In this extremely practical book, you’ll gain confidence and find the answers you need to set boundaries, guide your kids, and help them navigate the digital landscape." (Publisher description)
1 They Don't Tell You This Stuff: Everything you wish you'd known before you bought your kids their first screen, 1
2 Connection before Correction: How to replace overreaction with interaction, 13
3 What Age? The perfect time to give your kids a screen (and what to do if you already did), 27
4 "Mom, Can I Have My Phone in My Bedroom?" The link between screens, sleep loss, and depression…and what you can do about it, 49
5 The Unintended Effects of Social Media: And how to build your kids' self-esteem, 67
6 The Thing about Screen Time: Helping your kids learn to make wise screen-time choices, 87
7 "I See You": Teaching your kids to recognize predatory behaviors and spot Creepy Basement Guy, 109
8 Where Parental Controls Matter: The settings that help keep your kids safe and block distractions, 127
9 When They Break the Rules: Correcting without destroying connection, 153
10 Putting It into Practice. Real-world stories from moms and dads parenting Generation Screen, 167
11 Time for Pizza: Sharing your plan for becoming a screenwise family, 185
2 Connection before Correction: How to replace overreaction with interaction, 13
3 What Age? The perfect time to give your kids a screen (and what to do if you already did), 27
4 "Mom, Can I Have My Phone in My Bedroom?" The link between screens, sleep loss, and depression…and what you can do about it, 49
5 The Unintended Effects of Social Media: And how to build your kids' self-esteem, 67
6 The Thing about Screen Time: Helping your kids learn to make wise screen-time choices, 87
7 "I See You": Teaching your kids to recognize predatory behaviors and spot Creepy Basement Guy, 109
8 Where Parental Controls Matter: The settings that help keep your kids safe and block distractions, 127
9 When They Break the Rules: Correcting without destroying connection, 153
10 Putting It into Practice. Real-world stories from moms and dads parenting Generation Screen, 167
11 Time for Pizza: Sharing your plan for becoming a screenwise family, 185
