IST 605: Screen Time and Children

Authors: Jennifer Van Hook, Susan King, Valerie McHale

Publisher: Springer (2018) 

Families and Technology looks at how technology is changing family life. It acts as a guide for families on how to deal with the rise in new technology that is overtaking all parts of our lives. It provides tips for how to manage this in a positive way, since it is having such a strong presence in schools now that is not necessarily going away. This makes it a very useful tool, since it not only discusses the negative things about screen time, but also how we can use them in a healthy and beneficial way and teach our children to do the very same.

In this book, Haidt discusses the kinds of issues that the overuse of screens has left on the newest generation of children. Not only are they struggling with anxiety, but they also are struggling with self regulation and have a severe lack of coping mechanisms, which causes a lot of behavioral problems and anti social behaviors. Haidt goes into the reasonings for these behaviors, as well as giving tips for how to raise children in spite of the overwhelming presence of screens in our communities nowadays. 

Author: Martin Kutscher 

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2016)

Digital Kids: How to Balance Screen Time and Why it Matters provides more information on how children are existing in the digital world, and the issues and behaviors that are becoming a daily occurrence for families and communities. In this book, Kutscher discusses digital addictions and how to manage them, as well as the behavioral and physical problems that come with excessive internet use on a deep level. He also discusses how ADHD and ADD can add to this and how to manage this in the context of these particular individuals, due to their unique situation. 

Authors: Joe Clement and Matt Miles 

Publisher: Chicago Review Press, (2017)

In Screen Schooled, Clement and Miles provide a very good example of how screens are affecting schools nowadays. From chromebooks to lessons on smartboards, the children of America are constantly on screens. This provides a clear example of why the screen epidemic has become so strong in America today and tips for bringing down our screen time in order to limit the negative consequences of screens for our youngest children especially.