

Media Moms & Digital Dads
A Fact-Not-Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age
Author: Yalda T. Uhls
Narrator: Cyndee Maxwell
Unabridged: 5 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Published: 12/01/2015
Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Self-help, Communication & Social Skills
Includes:
Bonus Material
Synopsis
Dr Uhls expertise as former Hollywood executive and current expert on child development and media gives her a unique and important perspective. As a trained scientist she understands the fascinating studies conducted by researchers, and as a mom of digital teens, she knows what actually works and can relate to the reality of being a parent in the 21st century. Dr. Uhls also describes the research she conducted at UCLA (extensively reported on in news outlets such as the NY Times, NPR and Time Magazine) including her studies about fame and social media and about whether the extensive time we stare at screens impacts non verbal emotional understanding.
Chapters (with descriptions of research, bottom lines and guidance for parents) include:
Forward by the CEO from the national, non-profit Common Sense Media
Overview of parenting in the digital age
Screen time for babies and toddlers
The Mobile Era
The Digital Brain
Social Media and Social Lives
Fame, FOMO and selfies
The Digital Brain
Learning in the Digital Age
Education in the Digital Age
Videogames
There are few hotter parenting issues today than helping our children safely navigate they digital world in which we live. It provides both immense opportunity for learning and connecting and yet great opportunity for making mistakes and harm. Knowing what the facts are and when and how to get involved is perhaps one of the most challenging aspects of parenting. Media Moms & Digital Dads offers parents reassuring and fact based guidance on how best to manage screens and media for their children.