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As an avid reader, I have been fascinated by childrenās reading development and began researching this topic with a specific interest in the personal motivation of young readers. IĀ examined childrenās reading in various digital formats, including e-books made by families and children themselves. Today, I work as Professor in Norway and the UK and enjoy working across academia and industry. I feel very passionate about communicating research in an accessible way to childrenās teachers, caregivers, and policy-makers. The books on my list do this exceptionally well, and I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did.
In this book, Baron provides an accessible and comprehensive guide to the latest knowledge on a specific digital activity: reading with screens. Her focused and nuanced perspective on a specific aspect of living with screens is a refreshing approach. I enjoyed reading about research on digital reading from various perspectives and the practical advice for applying this knowledge to my own reading habits. I particularly liked the engaging account of the differences between reading print and digital books and how that is different from audio stories. As someone who has been researching young childrenās reading in relation to new media, I found the summary of research on various types of text particularly interesting.
An engaging and authoritative guide to the impact of reading medium on learning, from a foremost expert in the field
We face constant choices about how we read. Educators must select classroom materials. College students weigh their textbook options. Parents make decisions for their children. The digital revolution has transformed reading, and with the recent turn to remote learning, onscreen reading may seem like the only viable option. Yet selecting digital is often based on cost or convenience, not on educational evidence. Now more than ever it is imperative to understand how reading medium actually impacts learning-and what strategiesā¦
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa storiesāall reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argueā¦
As an avid reader, I have been fascinated by childrenās reading development and began researching this topic with a specific interest in the personal motivation of young readers. IĀ examined childrenās reading in various digital formats, including e-books made by families and children themselves. Today, I work as Professor in Norway and the UK and enjoy working across academia and industry. I feel very passionate about communicating research in an accessible way to childrenās teachers, caregivers, and policy-makers. The books on my list do this exceptionally well, and I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did.
Tap, Click, Read was one of the first books to describe reading with screens in a balanced and measured way. I liked that the authors engaged with a range of research studies and outlined the significant potential of digital books for childrenās literacy development, particularly if the books are designed with research principles in mind. The book inspired me to write in jargon-free language when communicating research to non-academic audiences. I loved the many examples in the book illustrating how young children tap, click and indeed read with modern interactive screens.
A guide to promoting literacy in the digital age With young children gaining access to a dizzying array of games, videos, and other digital media, will they ever learn to read? The answer is yes if they are surrounded by adults who know how to help and if they are introduced to media designed to promote literacy, instead of undermining it. Tap, Click, Read gives educators and parents the tools and information they need to help children grow into strong, passionate readers who are skilled at using media and technology of all kinds print, digital, and everything in between. Inā¦
Iāve researched childrenās digital lives since the internet first arrived in many peopleās homes. Recently, I noticed parentsā concerns werenāt listened to ā mostly, researchers interview parents to find out about their children rather than about parents themselves. Worse, policymakers often make decisions that affect parents without consulting them. So, in Parenting for a Digital Future we focused on parents, following my previous books on Children and the Internet and The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age. As a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, I love that moment of knocking on a familyās door, and am always curious to see what I will find!
Media producers, digital designers, educators, child psychologists ā professionals with different kinds of expertise and experience have different insights to offer.
I find it fascinating how these insights converge in this book on a vision of childhood that I can really support ā children are seen as active agents making sense of their digital world, but also in need of thoughtful mentoring and guidance from parents, educators, and media producers.
Unlike some books which forget that media are not just tech but also content, this book really engages with the kinds of cultural representations that now populate childrenās lives and imaginations. Of course there are differences between the authors, so this book offers plenty of food for thought to the reader.
All the essays are short, so you can get the gist of an argument and further reading in just a few pages ā and each one has something newā¦
Exploring Key Issues in Early Childhood and Technology offers early childhood allies, both in the classroom and out, a cutting-edge overview of the most important topics related to technology and media use in the early years.
In this powerful resource, international experts share their wealth of experience and unpack complex issues into a collection of accessibly written essays. This text is specifically geared towards practitioners looking for actionable information on screen time, cybersafety, makerspaces, coding, computational thinking, STEM, AI and other core issues related to technology and young children in educational settings. Influential thought leaders draw on their own experiencesā¦
AcClaim is a dark, high-society romance about Beatrix Winslow-Hale, a successful romance author who believes desire can be negotiated and controlledāuntil enigmatic billionaire Dorian Wolker crosses the line between consensual surrender and violation.Ā Publicly humiliated and emotionally shattered, Beatrix turns to Manon de Rochemaure, her fiercely loyal best friend andā¦
As an avid reader, I have been fascinated by childrenās reading development and began researching this topic with a specific interest in the personal motivation of young readers. IĀ examined childrenās reading in various digital formats, including e-books made by families and children themselves. Today, I work as Professor in Norway and the UK and enjoy working across academia and industry. I feel very passionate about communicating research in an accessible way to childrenās teachers, caregivers, and policy-makers. The books on my list do this exceptionally well, and I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did.
I found it fascinating to read how play has changed over the past fifty years and beyond. I found many parallels between the changes to childrenās play and changes to childrenās reading. The influence of mass media on todayās children's play is undeniable and the authors did a great job of highlighting both the potentials and limitations of this influence. I was left with many questions and ideas after reading the book and really enjoyed how the book taught me to think about childrenās play in a new way.
This book explores changes in the nature of the relationship between play, media and commercial culture through a comparison of play in the 1950s/60s and the present day, examining the continuities and discontinuities in play over time. There are many aspects of play which remain the same today as they were sixty years ago, which relate to the purposes of play, the way in which children weave in material from a range of sources in their play, including media, and how they play with each other. Differences in play between now and the mid-twentieth century are due to the veryā¦
I am an integrative child psychiatrist with a special focus on how screen-time detunes the nervous system, causing issues with sleep, mood, focus, and behavior.Ā In fact, technology use is the most underestimated influence of our time; it causes problems whose connections arenāt always obvious, leads to misdiagnosis and overmedication, and wastes resources.Ā I am passionate about helping children and families methodically reverse these changes using screen fast protocols that provide dramatic improvements in functioning and well-being. I speak regularly to parentsā groups, schools, and health providers, and my work has been featured on such outlets as NPR, CNN, NBC Nightly News, Psychology Today, and Good Morning America.
This book will make you a little uneasy; some of the descriptions and scenarios are downright disturbing. Yet the information is necessary to navigate parenting in todayās world. I felt a strange form of validation reading this work, as Iām all too aware of these issues (bullying, kids feeling ignored, sexting, lack of empathy, etc), but when I bring them up, parents often respond that I have a skewed perspective. But as Dr. Steiner Adaire points out, the kids themselves say āparents are cluelessā about their kidsā digital lives. Her writing is beautiful, and her advice about helping kids think critically about online behavior is second to none.Ā
Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Pick; Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year
Clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair takes an in-depth look at how the Internet and the digital revolution are profoundly changing childhood and family dynamics, and offers solutions parents can use to successfully shepherd their children through the technological wilderness.
As the focus of the family has turned to the glow of the screenāchildren constantly texting their friends or going online to do homework; parents working online around the clockāeveryday life is undergoing a massive transformation. Easy access to the Internet and social media has erased the boundaries thatā¦
Life is busy. We all feel it. As my husband and I have built businesses, published books, traveled the country, and homeschooled our four kids, weāve worried at times that our schedule is too packed and weāre losing sight of what matters. Seven years ago, we took time to write out a āFamily Values List,ā which has guided our familyās trajectory. We measure every decision and opportunity up against our core values. This provides a depth of intentionality in our parenting, which has led us to read (and write!) resources around how to make the most of the time we have together as a family. āDo life togetherā is on our values list, and itās what we aim to do each day.
Iāve found that to parent with intentionality, I first have to purge away distractions. Parents today are facing challenges that were never an issue in past generations. Likewise, kids today face overwhelming challenges around technology and screens. InĀ Screen Kids, I discovered freedom from guilt and encouragement for how to parent against the current. Itās ok to raise my kids differently. Itās also worth it. This book equipped me with incredibly important ways to take back our home and parent on purpose.
In this digital age, children spend more time interacting with screens and less time playing outside, reading a book, or interacting with family. Though technology has its benefits, it also has its harms.
In Screen Kids Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane will empower you with the tools you need to make positive changes. Through stories, science, and wisdom, youāll discover how to take back your home from an overdependence on screens. Plus, youāll learn to teach the five A+ skills that every child needs to master: affection, appreciation, anger management, apology, and attention. Learnā¦
"A profound and often affecting story of resilience." āKirkus Reviews
The Silent Women, an extraordinary novel inspired by the real women of Oak Ridge, Tennesseeāthe Manhattan Projectās āSecret City," where thousands kept the deadliest secret of World War IIāis a sweeping, absorbing, and deeply human story about chosenā¦
I am a child of a high-conflict divorce, so when I became a clinical psychologist my mission was to prevent the kind of suffering that is common in divorce, especially for children. I have worked with thousands of children and families going through divorces, some amicably and some with extreme difficulty. Divorce can be damaging but there are ways to prevent that damage, and these books including mine, as well as my blog are all tools with the same goal: help families avoid the pain, upheaval, loss, and destruction of a litigated divorce. In my work now I focus on working with people who commit to work through their divorce without threats of litigation. I work primarily in the area of Collaborative Divorce.
Bill Eddy is the expert on reducing conflict in high-conflict divorce (all of his books are well worth reading). Conflict in divorce can be traumatic, and especially hurts the children. Bill has useful acronyms and tools to help manage the intensity of communication between divorcing parents. His style is conversational and informal, but his content is rich. I like the way he illustrates his points with stories of people heās worked with. I recommend BIFF and other tools to my patients going through divorce.
"Coparenting is hard in any circumstance and when doing it with someone that has a high conflict personality, can seem impossible. The first step is to admit that you are outmatched in every way except for the ability to learn new skills related to the high conflict personality. My life did not change until I began to read and understand and start using tools like BIFF. I couldnāt help my children because I couldnāt help myself and until I learned new tools, felt hopeless. Using BIFF will give you hope that change is possible.ā A.C., parent
As a trained therapist, educator, and coach for expectant and new parents, I understand on a deep level the importance of creating a strong foundation in building a family. I also was personally humbled at how difficult the transition to parenthood was for me and the challenges it presented in my relationship with my husband. While weāve grown exponentially, I wanted to make it a little easier for other expectant parents to avoid some of the pitfalls that arenāt spoken about as much in becoming parents. I also wanted to help the new little beings arriving in the world to have more resourced, present parents. Itās a win-win.
Siegel is a child psychiatrist who deeply understands the importance of attachment theory and neurobiology. This book, written with child development specialist and parent educator Hartzell, invites parents to deeply examine their own childhood experiences and how they have shaped us. It provides clear exercises for making sense of our past in an effort to provide the best, emotionally, for our children. As a therapist, I believe there is no greater gift to ourselves and our children than working towards our own healing, which helps prevent the transmission of āgenerational traumaā to our children. This book also focuses on the importance of ārepairā after there have been ruptures in the relationship with our children. This in itself is invaluable.
An updated editionāwith a new prefaceāof the bestselling parenting classic by the author of "BRAINSTORM: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain"
In Parenting from the Inside Out, child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore the extent to which our childhood experiences shape the way we parent. Drawing on stunning new findings in neurobiology and attachment research, they explain how interpersonal relationships directly impact the development of the brain, and offer parents a step-by-step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories, which will help them raise compassionate andā¦
I love to laugh. Quite often itās at inappropriate times or at someone elseās expense, but either way, itās a huge part of who I am. Second only to prayer, I find laughter to be the best remedy for a difficult situation. Itās hard to be sad when youāre laughing, and as a writer who puts characters into very challenging positions, thatās always at the forefront of my mind. While readers may not always relate to the exact circumstance my characters are in, they may very well find common ground in the levity they seek when trying to survive it.
I was (thankfully) long past the āputting kids to bedā stage of life when I first read this book, but you donāt have to be in the depths of sleep-deprived hell to enjoy it! This book is 100% irreverent which makes it 100% perfect! It will provide just the right amount of levity to any frustrated parent/sitter who canāt understand why that beautiful, crying child in front of them wonāt go to sleep already! Disclaimer: If you donāt appreciate a good F-bomb, donāt read this book. The title says it all.
"Nothing has driven home a certain truth about my generation, which is approaching the apex of its childbearing years, quite like this." --The New Yorker
"A parenting zeitgeist" --Washington Post
"A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep." --National Public Radio
"A new Bible for weary parents" --New York Times
"Resonates powerfully with almost everyone" --Boston Globe
"This children's book parody earns its place on the list by being a much-needed bit of catharsis that every parent needs." --Fatherly, one of the 10 Bestā¦
Broken Boots, Redeemed Soul: A Veteranās War with Sin and Salvation
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Brian Lofton,
Broken Boots, Redeemed Soul: A Veteranās War with Sin and Salvation, is a raw and faith-centered memoir about life after military serviceāand the internal battles many never see. Brian Lofton shares his journey through addiction, shame, identity loss, and spiritual distance, revealing how the hardest struggles often begin afterā¦
I love books and kids in all varieties and write for both adults and children. My parenting books Itās OK Not to Share and Itās OK to Go Up the Slide, promote play, conflict mediation skills, and no homework, and Iām a national speaker on early childhood education. My most recent book for children is the award-winning novel The Griffins of Castle Cary, an adventure featuring three kids, a Newfoundland dog, and a ghost problem. Iām a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and besides writing, I host two podcasts: BookSmitten (childrenās books), and Renegade Rules (early childhood and parenting). Enjoy the books!
This oft-neglected topic deserves adult attention. Why are we burning out our kids with homework, especially if itās not necessary? I love this honest, pull-back-the-wool book which debunks assumption after assumption as it delves into all the not-so-good reasons why we assign homework to kids from preschool to high school. The authors are smart and plucky. If you have school-age kids in your life, you owe it to them to read this book.
Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabularyāespecially when it takes away from reading time? And what is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas?
The time our children spend doing homework has skyrocketed in recent years. Parents spend countless hours cajoling their kids to complete such assignmentsāoften without considering whether or not they serve any worthwhile purpose. Even many teachers are in the dark: Only one of the hundreds the authors interviewed and surveyed had ever taken a course specifically on homework during training.
