Dealing with technology in family, gets everyone a little bit of stress: when, what, how, why. I found this book giving you answers and guidelines at all these questions.

Each age category has it own challenges to deal with, but this book comes with practical strategies, teaches you how to create healthy tech habits and how to establish family values.

It brings you an optimistic perspective in relationship with screens while exposing the matters you need to pay attention.

A much needed reference and advise on technology and how our children are using it. A must read for parents in the digital age,

This was a nice addition to my "break up with your phone" box of tips, with new framings and some actionable takeaways. I'll definitely be reflecting on it and implementing solutions this year!

As a parent of two growing boys, I was particularly glad to have an opportunity to read an ARC of this book. It is very thoughtfully written and researched with real, practical solutions to this screen time conundrum that so many parents (and even non-parents!) find ourselves caught up in today's world. I appreciated the strategies, advice, and ideas that can be easily implemented at home.

This is one of the better books I have read about how to incorporate screentime into our lives and those of our children in a realistic and healthy manner. As a parent and teacher whose childhood took place in the 70s and 80s, I'm often frustrated by the negative impact that screens have on the lives of my own children, as well as those of my students. This book offered practical tips but also presented a new way of framing screen use for our family going forward.

The Screentime Solution is a great read that gives you practical tips that you can implement to help your family with boundaries for screentime. I love the research that it also provides. It has been a big help to our family in setting limits to screentime.

As someone who is not a parent yet but is already mindful of the problems with modern technology and its effects not only on us as adults but of course on children as well, I found a lot of value from reading this book. It has opened my eyes to the realities of the danger of giving children so much access to tech while they’re too underdeveloped to understand how to navigate it well & made me re-evaluate my own tech practices and how I can be more intentional with them. Highly recommend to anyone interested in the topic - very well written & an easy, engaging read.

In a very tech-heavy world, it's intimidating raising my toddler in it. While we are working to get him to grow in the digital age, as we did, it's also really nice and insightful to get viewpoints on how to help scale back the screentime and if it's used, to do it in healthy helpful manner.

This was very intriguing & insightful!

Thank you so much to NetGalley & Emily Cherkin (and team) for an advanced eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!

Highly recommend!
Every generation of parents have different and unique challenges and many current day families are dealing with screen times challenges. While many of these topics may seem to be common sense, it was a positive experience to hear from professionals on the positives and negatives. Quick and helpful read! Recommend to anyone with children ages 1-18!

Thank you NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

As a child therapist I love the IDEA of this book. I have clients right now whose parents are struggling with this very thing. But I couldn’t help but feel like this book was filled with radical opinions and lacking in factual information. These are the beliefs of someone nostalgic for the pre-web 80’s, who doesn’t miss a change to bring up, in every section, how life was better then when advanced technology was not around.

I began most chapters excited to read some tangible evidence and strategies to give parents. I left most of the chapters thinking “that’s it?” I felt I was promised something and it was not given.

I fully believe this could’ve been an opinion piece from the writer or even a memoir on life in the 80’s pre-social media. Right now, it just doesn’t work for me.

Really useful book for parents looking to navigate screen use for their families. Perhaps a little more useful for parents with older children (tweens and teens) but thought-provoking for parents with kids of any age. I've definitely adopted some of the approaches it describes (and will keep others in mind as my children age).

This book reminded me that the generation of kids with phones is not helpless. It’s up to the parents to teach and make solutions that build healthy relationships with screens and technology. I hear so much negativity around it all, that this book was refreshing!

This book was both practical and eye-opening. I really appreciated the author's honesty, judgement-free ideas, factual references, attention to each age group (littles/middles), as well as the TL;DRs and FAQs at the end of the book for easy reference. This is a must read for parents of any age (and especially tweens) in such tech-driven time.

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is a wonderful book. Anybody who wants to better control what goes into their minds via media should read this book.

This book helped me not only find solutions for my kids screentime, but also how important it is for me to reduce my own screen time. The thought process of why kids need phones and how they are really more harmful then helpful was brought to light in this book. I really enjoyed the authors way of telling stories without feeling like anyone was being judged. Parenting is hard as it is, and dealing with screen time restrictions while the rest of the world around us has little to no boundaries can make it seem like it's impossible to not give in to your own child. I found it helpful to know that it is possible to reduce the time my kids are in front of their phones without feeling like their world is ending.

I was so thankful to get a copy of this - thank you SO much for the ARC! This was much needed for my family. Having a 5-year old child we struggle with the right balance of screen time and tech in general. I think the advice was practical and straightforward and gave us lots to think about - even for my own tech usage!

As a therapist for teens and parents, and a mom of 5 small kids, I needed something to help bolster my screen time approach. This book is so helpful to learn about the actual facts and formulate a solution based on them. There is hope for this generation of kids if adults are willing to put in the work!

Most of the advice was pretty straightforward and basic, but it was helpful to learn more about the difference between the brain of a child and the brain of an adult, and how screen time impacts them differently.

Having two little kids that love watching their tablets or the TV made this book so relevant. I appreciated the nonjudgmental tone of the book and how she helped put the screen time dilemma in the perspective of what matters for each family. While the topic is nothing new, it's obvious by the tantrums that pursue when we turn the screens off that having some sort of boundary on the amount of time spent in front of the TV is necessary.

I recommend giving this book a try if you have been struggling with the boundaries or screen time as you have been trying to find ways to get a break yourself.

I found The Screentime Solution by Emily Cherkin to be very interesting, well-researched, and packed with practical tips and tricks for avoiding excessive screentime. Cherkin includes sections about child development and what is appropriate for children at each stage in terms of screen usage. The author, who is known as the Screentime Consultant, discusses the importance of having your tech use be in line with your family values, which for most people means reducing screentime across the board in favor of real life interactions.

Cherkin compares what screen usage was like in the 80s versus what it has looked like in the 2010s. A great deal has changed in that twenty year period about screens, and being armed with this information about the discrepancies can help parents and caregivers make better decisions about their children's use of technology.

I believe this book would be beneficial to parents, caregivers, teachers, and those who are in the field of child development. We all play a role in our children's views, uses, and possible abuses when it comes to technology. None of us are perfect, but we can all become better when it comes to being what Emily Cherkin refers to as "tech-intentional."