Parenting in the Screen Age: A Guide for Calm Conversations

Does every conversation with your child or teen about screen time blow up into a fight? Or maybe you avoid bringing up the topic but silently harbor worry and frustration. How can you better understand what you're up against - and most importantly, ensure the healthiest screen time possible?

In Parenting in the Screen Age, award-winning filmmaker, and mental health advocate Dr. Delaney Ruston distills more than a decade of communications research into a definitive guide for today's parents. Packed with evidence-based insights on screen time from researchers, input from kids and teens, and solutions drawn from Dr. Ruston's own messy parenting struggles, this guide shows you how to start - and sustain - productive family talks about technology. You'll learn how to:

• Bring up screen time without making your child or teen defensive
• Talk through difficult issues like online social cruelty, sexting, and mental health
• Engage your child in creating boundaries around Netflix, video gaming, and social media
• Have screen time limits that actually work - with less of the sneaking or arguing

During the COVID pandemic or after, this book will help you lead your child to become more tech-wise and life balanced - empowering them to build a healthier relationship with our digital world, now and into their future.

About the Author
Ruston, Delaney: - Delaney Ruston, M.D. is a filmmaker, Stanford trained physician, international speaker, and the creator of the award-winning films Screenagers and Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER. A trusted expert on screen time and parenting and improving the wellbeing of today's youth, Ruston has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, and PBS NewsHour and has been invited to speak at Google, The Aspen Institute, the United Nations, and conferences and schools worldwide. To date, her films have been seen by over 4.5 million kids and adults at screenings in 85 countries.Tabb, Lisa: - Lisa Tabb is the co-producer and co-executive producer of Screenagers and Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER. She has spent 29 years as a news producer, magazine publisher and editor, and entrepreneur. Tabb mother of two teenagers. For 15 years she produced news at ABC 7 News in San Francisco, with a focus on trends around parenting and raising kids and emerging technologies. Prior to television, Lisa started the first ecotravel magazine in the U.S, EcoTraveler. She went on to have a long career in running adventure travel publishing. She is the co-author of Beyond Vegas in which she writes about marrying her husband in 10 countries. Lisa has worked with schools on fundraising and education initiatives in Northern California where she lives.