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Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World Illustrated Edition

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Parents often worry about raising kids in a tech-saturated world - the threats of cyberbullying, video game violence, pornography, and sexting may seem inescapable. While these dangers exist, there is a much more insidious way that technology can cause harm. Our tendency to overuse our screens is interfering with our ability to meet our basic needs. These include sleep, physical activity, and perhaps most importantly, our in-person relationships.
Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World guides parents in teaching their children how to reap the benefits of living in a digital world while also preventing its negative effects. Dr. Mike Brooks and Dr. Jon Lasser, psychologists with extensive experience working with kids, parents, and teachers, combine cutting-edge research and expertise to create an engaging and helpful guide that emphasizes the importance of the parent-child relationship. They reject an "all or nothing" attitude towards technology, in favor of a balanced approach that neither idealizes nor demonizes the digital. Brooks and Lasser provide strategies for preventing technology from becoming problematic in the first place; steps for addressing problems when they arise; and ways of intervening when problems are out of control. They also discuss the increasingly challenging issue of technology use in schools, and how parents can collaborate with educators when concerns arise over kids' use of technology.

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From the Library Journal: "VERDICT A key title for libraries, with relevant research that supports a balanced approach to technology use."

From Dr. Bob Lane, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Literature, Vancouver Island University, B.C.:"...that reading the book is an enjoyable experience as well as a learningopportunity. There are concrete and doable suggestions for parents tofollow that should help to accommodate the use of the new technology whilemaintaining some of the best practices of the past."

From Publisher's Weekly: "...parents should find Brooks and Lasser's advice to be easily understood and solidly commensensical."

From GeekMom: Tech Generation is written by people who are as screen-obsessed as we are and will make a great resource for families struggling with tech issues, without making the tech itself the enemy.

"Tech Generation is an important book for our time..." The Lancet

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Guides parents in teaching their children how to reap the benefits of living in a digital world while also preventing its negative effects

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Dr. Mike Brooks is a licensed psychologist and licensed specialist in school psychology. He is the director of the Austin Psychology & Assessment Center (ApaCenter). He received his doctorate in Educational Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin. He has a wealth of expertise in technology and gaming addiction, positive psychology, the needs of children and teens, and effective parenting practices. He is a frequent presenter on these topics, and maintains a website, www.TechHappyLife.com, devoted to the challenge of living a balanced life in a technological world.

Dr. Jon Lasser is Associate Dean for Research for the College of Education and Professor of School Psychology at Texas State University. He earned his doctorate in Educational Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin and his master's degree in Human Sexuality Education from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a licensed psychologist and licensed specialist in school psychology (LSSP) in Texas. He co-authored Grow Happy and Grow Grateful as well as School Psychologist as Counselor: A Practitioner's Handbook. He works with children and families in private practice.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition (August 1, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 328 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190665297
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190665296
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.1 x 5.8 inches

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Jon Lasser
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Dr. Jon Lasser is a Professor and Associate Dean for research for the College of Education. Prior to coming to Texas State he worked as school psychologist for public school system in Texas. At Texas State he has developed and taught graduate level courses for the school psychology program and has also taught the freshman first year experience course and an Honors College course in research ethics.
He has co-authored five books-- three for children and three for adults:
Grow Happy (Magination Press, 2017)
Grow Grateful (Magination Press, 2018)
Grow Kind (Magination Press, 2020)
• School Psychologist as Counselor (National Association of School Psychologists, 2013)
• Professional Ethics in Midwifery Practice (Jones & Bartlett, 2010)
• Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper Connected World (Oxford University Press, 2018)
He has published journal articles and chapters on a variety of subjects including autism, parenting, ethics, sexuality, and graduate preparation. His interest in research and ethics intersected in his role as the chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Texas State (2008-2017). Over the course of his career, Dr. Lasser has mentored students, faculty, and colleagues, supporting their growth and development. He has served as a mentor in the School Psychology Program, the IRB, the Bobcat Bond program, and through ongoing professional relationships in the public schools. Additionally, he has served on dissertation and theses committees, mentoring students through their own research and inviting students to present and publish with him.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Plan II Liberal Arts from the University of Texas at Austin, a master’s degree in Human Sexuality Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and a doctorate in School Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Licensed Psychologist and Licensed Specialist in School Psychology. He sees children and adolescents in his psychotherapy practice in San Marcos.
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Mike Brooks
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Dr. Mike Brooks is a licensed psychologist and licensed specialist in school psychology in Texas. He received his doctorate in Educational Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin and is the director of the Austin Psychology & Assessment Center (www.apacenter.com). He has a wealth of expertise in positive psychology, the needs of children and teens, effective parenting practice, and technology and gaming addiction. He is a frequent presenter on these topics. Dr. Brooks actively blogs and posts videos to his website, www.drmikebrooks.com. He also has a YouTube channel, Dr. Mike Brooks, and blogs for Psychology Today under Tech Happy Life. He and his wife are raising there 3 boys in Austin, Texas, and know first-hand about the many challenges of raising balanced kids in this hyper-connected world.
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The book's pretty authoritative

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2018

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I'm a university professor. So when I read the book, I was primarily interested in the book's scholarly side because I'm interested in how clinicians apply therapies to social media effects. My colleagues and I are on the other side of social media research: We run lab experiments to try to tease out social media's influence, if any, on depression, stress, and addictive behaviors. Unlike Brooks and Lasser, we're not therapists. So we're not charged with coming up with solutions to problems social media use might cause. Nonetheless, the therapeutic side of things is interesting for someone like me to get a peek at.

The book's assertions and recommendations are nicely backed up by the available research. The quality of the sourcing material is high and the authors don't let their claims outrun the empirical evidence. They hew closely to the empirical record. Where there is disagreement in the scholarly community about a putative outcome, the authors make that disagreement clear. The scholarly references they cite come from Thomson-Reuters impact factor rated journals -- the highest standard there is. Much of the research the authors cite is classic stuff, well replicated. Frequently, advice books get into pie-in-the-sky nonsense that doesn't differentiate much from opinion. This book has a scholarly, circumspect tone, which is what you would expect from the Oxford University Press imprimatur. The upshot is that the book provides a tightly woven, impeccably sourced narrative.

I was especially impressed by the authors' observations on media violence and video gaming. The book isn't about those subjects, but I know that research literature well because I've spent nearly 40 years working in those areas (media violence research more so than video gaming research). The authors hit just the right tone with respect to those two types of media and they cited well regarding research in the area. I didn't see anything in those sections with which I would disagree. My point is the authors gained my confidence in their judgment due to the balanced, measured evaluation they took with respect to media violence and video gaming effects. If they got that right -- something I know like the back of my hand -- then they likely got the material I'm not as familiar with right.

The book's not flashy. It' not something you would read for entertainment. But it is a serious clinical work product, which makes a credible evaluation of social media effects and -- as best I can tell -- provides thoughtful advice to parents. If I still had young children in the house, I'd trust it.

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Tom

Must read for any person with tech

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2019

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This book should be read by anyone with a phone; iPad; or some type of tech (which is pretty much everyone). I have a daughter who is 19 and in college, so I don't have the issues that some of the anecdotes in the book highlighted. But, reading the book showed me insight into my own "tech" habits and how they impact my daily life, relationships, etc. The book is broken into nice, easy-to-read sections. The first part covers a lot of the research in the arena of tech and how it impacts us. The latter part of the book gives "real world" ideas/examples to deal with folks that have varying degrees of tech addiction. I WISH this book had been published 10 years ago.....

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We need to understand this

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2019

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Our kids are going to have different life experiences given their immersion in technology from a young age. This work shows parents how to understand and mitigate the negative consequences.

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Carolyn Bush

Important book for parents

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2019

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Tech Generation provided us a great guide for navigating the world of iphones and the internet for our kids. The book is well written and backed by good research. The authors are not Luddites at all. They are serving more as guides for a new reality we all must face. I liked the mentions of Dweck’s growth mindset and I liked the case studies which provided good tips on how to talk to our kids. The stories of addiction were sobering and I think makes us as parents continue to stay vigilant and mindful of how much our kids are online and how they interact with technology. Thanks so much for the great book!!

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Good basic advice

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2018

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This is a comprehensive, traditional look at how to keep technology in check in our children's lives. I would be surprised if much here is new to most parents: model the behavior you wish your kids to adopt, set limits, and pay attention to what your kids are doing. They encourage parents to adapt an authoritative parenting model, which I would describe as setting strict limits and enforcing consequences, but being nice about it (their description is a bit more formal). After describing why too much screen time is dangerous, they categorize levels of danger by color. They use the traditional stop light model (green, yellow, red), with red indicating major problems, yellow emerging concerns, and green as balanced technology use. Along the way they describe problems that occur with too much screen time and give some solutions, using specific examples. Their chapter notes are detailed and can be used to find additional information.

I had several issues with this book, ranging from the trivial to the more serious. The least important was the annoying way they have decided to change the meaning of the phrase "early adopter" of technology. In this book it is not someone who uses technology as soon as it becomes available, it is someone who uses technology at a young age. Convenient for their purpose, of course, but not what it actually means. Then there was their insistence that all parents are as addicted to technology as their children. I may be the only parent out there who does not spend every day glued to her cell phone, but I do exist. When authors put forth a premise I know to be untrue, it undermines their argument a bit, even though I know some parents fit their criteria (but if there really are parents out there who interrupt reading bedtime stories to answer their phones just stop it now, please).

I am sure there are children for whom their examples of authoritative parenting will work just as described, but frankly, I have never experienced a child who responds so positively to a request to stop playing a video game or limit screen time as the examples they give, no matter how warmly it is aasked. The parenting style they describe and their suggestions seem to be an excellent approach, but I suspect most parents picking up this book will find it takes far more work than is described here. One word of warning: I have experience with teens with ADHD and screen time problems, and this is not the best book I've seen for parents with kids with ADHD. There is an acknowledgement that they may have more problems with screen time than other kids, but you will not find much advice tailored to their issues.

Still, this is a good basic overview for parents with normal kids who don't have complicating issues that may affect their
relationship with technology. I do think they clearly describe positive ways for parents to interact with their children on this issue, and I especially appreciate their emphasis on the importance of maintaining good parent-child relationships.

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Kate

Great

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2019

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Excellent easy to read book with great recommendations. Physically it arrived in perfect condition.

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Ozlem

A very valuable read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 7, 2018

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Having two kids - 14 year old and 11year old - I immediately embraced this book and found it very valuable. In an age where technology is a huge part of everyday life, this book gives clear, easy to follow guidance on balancing technology in our lives, especially the lives of our children, it is invaluable. it is written in a clear, friendly language and I liked that it promotes conversation in the family to tackle and balance use of technology - highly recommended!

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