Baby, Unplugged, Sophie Brickman
Baby, Unplugged, Sophie Brickman
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Baby, Unplugged
One Mother’s Search for Balance, Reason, and Sanity in the Digital Age

Author: Sophie Brickman

Narrator: Celia Keenan-Bolger

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/07/2021


Synopsis

A charming, meticulously researched, and illuminating look at how technology infiltrates every aspect of raising children today, filled with helpful advice parents can use to best navigate the digital landscape, and ultimately learn to trust their own judgment.There’s an app or device for nearly every aspect of parenting today: monitoring your baby; entertaining or educating your toddler; connecting with other new parents for tips, tricks, and community—virtually every aspect of daily life. But it isn’t a parenting paradise; the truth is much more complicated.  The mother of two young daughters, journalist Sophie Brickman wondered what living in a tech-saturated world was doing to her and her children. She turned to experts, academics, doctors, and innovators for advice and insight. Baby, Unplugged brings together Brickman’s in-depth research with her own candid (sometimes hilarious) personal experience to help parents sort through the wide and often confusing tech offerings available today and to sort out what’s helpful and what’s not. Filled with relatable and entertaining stories as well as practical takeaways, Baby, Unplugged is destined to become a touchstone for parents today, giving them the permission to forge their own path through the morass of technological options, to restore their faith in themselves, and to help them raise good, social, and engaged people in the modern world. 

About Sophie Brickman

Sophie Brickman is a writer, reporter, and editor who has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Elle, Saveur, The Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, and other outlets. Her work has also appeared in the Best Food Writing and the Best American Science Writing anthologies. Her first book, Baby, Unplugged, about the intersection of technology and parenting, received a starred Publishers Weekly review and landed her a spot on Good Morning America. Plays Well with Others is her first novel. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda on January 14, 2022

Brickman’s search for balance, reason, and sanity in this digital age is a common and important one. I liked her balance of “expert” opinions with “parent/friend” opinions. Note my quotes here, because parents/friends are definitely experts in that they, alone, know the most about each of their indi......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on October 30, 2021

As a reader who is 6 months pregnant with my first child, it would be an understatement to say that I feel unprepared to navigate the tension between technology and parenting. While I’ve been fretting over how much tech-based baby devices to put on my baby registry or wondering about future screen t......more

Goodreads review by Philip on January 21, 2024

A funny and witty take on a serious matter. The author has two young children and was concerned about the effect technology would have on their development. She undertakes an investigation into the science of it all (spoiler: it's both concerning and complicated, just like all of our own relationshi......more

Goodreads review by Liz on June 28, 2022

I too am against the chromebookification of education in America......more

Goodreads review by Zibby on September 13, 2021

Baby Unplugged is about the author's quest to sort through all the technological baggage that came with becoming a parent. As we all know, there’s an app or device for nearly every aspect of parenting today: sleep monitors, breast pumps, and even sheets that monitor a baby’s weight and movement at a......more