Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Balancing Your Child’s Use of Technology-Fast Shipping

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Are your kids unable to step away from the screens? Here is a practical, step-by-stepguide that gives parents the tools to teach children, from toddlers toteens, how to gain control of their technology use.

Aschildren spend more of their time on tablets and smartphones, using appsspecially engineered to capture their attention, parents are concernedabout the effects of so much technology use–and feel powerless tointervene. They want their kids to be competent and competitive in theiruse of technology, but they also want to prevent the attention problemsthat can develop from overuse. Lucy Jo Palladino shows that the key isto help kids build awareness and control over their own attention, andin this guide she gives parents the tools to do exactly that, in sevenstraightforward, evidence-based steps.

Parents will learn thebest practices to guide children to understand and control theirattention—and to recognize and resist when their attention is being”snatched.” This approach can be modified for kids of all ages. Parentswill also learn the critical difference between voluntary andinvoluntary attention, new findings about brain development, and whatputs children at risk for attention disorders.