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The Teenage Guide to Digital Wellbeing: Find the Balance to Live Your Best Live

Glasgow: Collins (2024), 189 pp.

ISBN 978-0-00-865998-1

Signature commbox: 70-Children/Youth-E 2024

"Digital wellbeing is all about finding the balance between the digital world and the real world – and making sure we use smartphones and other digital devices in a healthy way, while living fulfilling lives beyond the screen. This guide helps tweens and teens do exactly that, inspiring them to set their devices aside (sometimes anyway!) and start living in the here and now. Written by digital wellbeing expert Tanya Goodin, it’s packed with positive prompts, thought-provoking science, and hands-on activities to encourage healthy habits around screen use – including nostalgic crafts, retro tech scavenger hunts, and phone-free nature excursions, plus practical tips on how to deal with digital challenges like comparison culture, cyberbullying, trolling, and much more. This book is not about teenagers giving up their devices forever; it’s about being more mindful of how they use them, so they can live their best lives – on and off the screen." (Publisher description)
So, what's digital wellbeing all about? 6
Creating a logbook, 8
Start Mindfully. Month 1, 13
Love Yourself. Month 2, 27
Permission to Unplug. Month 3, 43
Don't be Fooled. Month 4, 59
Healthy Relationships. Month 5, 75
Use your Hands. Month 6, 91
Go Analogue. Month 7, 105
Connect with Nature. Month 8, 119
Build Resilience. Month 9, 133
Make a Difference. Month 10, 149
Awe! Month 11, 165
Refelction and Celebration. Month 12, 179