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# Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World

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Screenwise offers an encouraging perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents and educators worry that kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Digital Citizenship expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers huge potential to our children--if parents help them. Screenwise helps parents recognize that the social wisdom they have gained throughout their lives is a relevant and urgently needed supplement to their kid's digital savvy. These skills can help set kids up for a lifetime of success in a world fueled by technology. The core message of the book is that kids need mentoring, not (just) monitoring, and that kids deserve more empathy from adults about growing up in the digital age. Texting, gaming and social media are social spaces requiring social skills. The book offers advice on helping kids navigate friendship and identity issues that are common among new texters, gamers and social media users. Screenwise is a guide to understanding what it is like for children to grow up with technology, and to recognizing the special challenges--and advantages--that contemporary kids and teens experience thanks to this level of connection. Children's school experiences, family life and friendships are all shaped by digital connection. Educators and school leaders looking to engage parents around educational technology and wishing to create a culture of digital citizenship will benefit from this volume. Screenwise helps parents and educators move beyond discussions of "screentime" to evaluate different kinds of engagement with technology. Screenwise presents practical parenting "hacks": quick ideas that you can implement today that will help you understand and relate to your digital native. The book empowers parents to recognize ways that wisdom that they have gained throughout their lives is a relevant and urgently needed supplement to their kid's digital savvy.Based on real-life stories from families, the latest research, and Dr. Heitner's experience working with schools, Screenwise teaches parents what they need to know in order to raise responsible and empathetic kids in the digital age.

Review: Menoring not monitoring - YES! - SCREENWISE isn’t what you’d expect from a typical media literacy book. Its advice on how to help children learn to ask relevant questions about the content of games, movies, music, or TV programs is brief and arguably too general to be all that useful. If I was judging it based on that criteria, the book would probably get a 3-4 star rating. I give it 5 stars because SCREENWISE is a very, very good parenting text about how to help children negotiate life with cell phones and social networks. It would be a great gift for parents of children/teens who carry their own phones or tablets or ever log on to a social network or multiplayer gaming site (like Minecraft). This highly accessible book is written as a conversation between the author and the reader, but is clearly research based with a sound understanding of child development and developmentally appropriate expectations. She skillfully distinguishes between old issues in new wrapping and new issues introduced by the constant connectivity, immediacy, and permanency unique to the digital world. To help parents see things through their children’s eyes, Heitner includes the voices of kids (culled through her own research). She gives parents a “heads up” about the things they need to look out for and then provides practical advice about how to engage children in conversations that will build the skills they need to productively and ethically manage life with devices on their own. Her mantra is “monitoring cannot substitute for mentoring,” which is why I think this counts as a valuable addition to a media literacy library. This is not a perfect book. As Heitner recognizes, it is entirely focused on middle and upper-middle class families. It will have limited value for those who aren’t part of that demographic. For example, it doesn’t address cultural conflicts unique to new immigrants and their American children or the challenges faced by families in homes that have sub-standard or no Internet or cloud connectivity. It assumes a parenting style that relies on negotiating with children and engaging them in conversation about sensitive issues – a practice that is not universally accepted, either because it doesn’t mesh with parents’ values or doesn’t match their skill set. Despite the gaps, there are millions of families that are grappling with the exact issues that Heitner addresses. For them, this book is gold.
Review: Technology is here to stay, and kids need OUR help and guidance. Get that Luddite head out of the sand... and get Screenwise! - This book is truly a beacon in the darkness, both for parents who fear all screens and fruitlessly try to keep kids away from them, and for parents who may be worried by the amount or type of screen-based activities in which their kids engage, but remain hands-off and permissive because they don't know how to address it. Our family has screen-time limits for our school-aged kids, but so often these limits were leading to tantrums and power struggles because they were arbitrary. These limits lumped silly videos and games together with coding tutorials, historical research, and other far more useful online activities. In today's world, that simplistic approach just doesn't work. It makes kids feel bad about enjoying technology, when in fact we all use it multiple times a day (both for "redeeming" activities, and just for entertainment). Further, arbitrary limits set kids up to "cheat" when parents aren't looking-- and to lack the healthy awareness and guidance they need to navigate the online social world. It has been so helpful to approach technology in a new, more supportive way: taking an interest in the games of skill that our kids enjoy; using beloved characters from videos to discuss social skills in the real world; having open conversations about language and content that make videos and sites inappropriate for kids. I haven't even finished this book yet, and already I've had an incredible conversation with my daughter about a seemingly "silly" or "dumb" series of videos she kept talking about incessantly at the dinner table. It turns out that her interest in these videos was a way of working out an issue at school that was too hard to talk about directly. Once I took an interest in her interest, we were able to get to the bottom of things. Remember, this generation of kids is as good-hearted and hard-working as any generation in the past. Minecraft is not evil. Social media can be positive. Of course being glued to devices (or prioritizing them over real life) is not healthy, but Screenwise outlines helpful ways that parents can set a good example and get kids on the right track. The tone of this book is non-judgmental, optimistic, and so understanding toward Luddite parents like me, who have so much to learn. You don't have to be an expert in Pokémon Go or Roblox; you just have to get comfortable enough in your kids' world to guide them through it.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #148,970 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #117 in Parent Participation in Education (Books) #132 in School-Age Children Parenting #277 in Popular Child Psychology |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 168 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Menoring not monitoring - YES!
*by F***N on January 18, 2017*

SCREENWISE isn’t what you’d expect from a typical media literacy book. Its advice on how to help children learn to ask relevant questions about the content of games, movies, music, or TV programs is brief and arguably too general to be all that useful. If I was judging it based on that criteria, the book would probably get a 3-4 star rating. I give it 5 stars because SCREENWISE is a very, very good parenting text about how to help children negotiate life with cell phones and social networks. It would be a great gift for parents of children/teens who carry their own phones or tablets or ever log on to a social network or multiplayer gaming site (like Minecraft). This highly accessible book is written as a conversation between the author and the reader, but is clearly research based with a sound understanding of child development and developmentally appropriate expectations. She skillfully distinguishes between old issues in new wrapping and new issues introduced by the constant connectivity, immediacy, and permanency unique to the digital world. To help parents see things through their children’s eyes, Heitner includes the voices of kids (culled through her own research). She gives parents a “heads up” about the things they need to look out for and then provides practical advice about how to engage children in conversations that will build the skills they need to productively and ethically manage life with devices on their own. Her mantra is “monitoring cannot substitute for mentoring,” which is why I think this counts as a valuable addition to a media literacy library. This is not a perfect book. As Heitner recognizes, it is entirely focused on middle and upper-middle class families. It will have limited value for those who aren’t part of that demographic. For example, it doesn’t address cultural conflicts unique to new immigrants and their American children or the challenges faced by families in homes that have sub-standard or no Internet or cloud connectivity. It assumes a parenting style that relies on negotiating with children and engaging them in conversation about sensitive issues – a practice that is not universally accepted, either because it doesn’t mesh with parents’ values or doesn’t match their skill set. Despite the gaps, there are millions of families that are grappling with the exact issues that Heitner addresses. For them, this book is gold.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Technology is here to stay, and kids need OUR help and guidance. Get that Luddite head out of the sand... and get Screenwise!
*by F***S on September 14, 2016*

This book is truly a beacon in the darkness, both for parents who fear all screens and fruitlessly try to keep kids away from them, and for parents who may be worried by the amount or type of screen-based activities in which their kids engage, but remain hands-off and permissive because they don't know how to address it. Our family has screen-time limits for our school-aged kids, but so often these limits were leading to tantrums and power struggles because they were arbitrary. These limits lumped silly videos and games together with coding tutorials, historical research, and other far more useful online activities. In today's world, that simplistic approach just doesn't work. It makes kids feel bad about enjoying technology, when in fact we all use it multiple times a day (both for "redeeming" activities, and just for entertainment). Further, arbitrary limits set kids up to "cheat" when parents aren't looking-- and to lack the healthy awareness and guidance they need to navigate the online social world. It has been so helpful to approach technology in a new, more supportive way: taking an interest in the games of skill that our kids enjoy; using beloved characters from videos to discuss social skills in the real world; having open conversations about language and content that make videos and sites inappropriate for kids. I haven't even finished this book yet, and already I've had an incredible conversation with my daughter about a seemingly "silly" or "dumb" series of videos she kept talking about incessantly at the dinner table. It turns out that her interest in these videos was a way of working out an issue at school that was too hard to talk about directly. Once I took an interest in her interest, we were able to get to the bottom of things. Remember, this generation of kids is as good-hearted and hard-working as any generation in the past. Minecraft is not evil. Social media can be positive. Of course being glued to devices (or prioritizing them over real life) is not healthy, but Screenwise outlines helpful ways that parents can set a good example and get kids on the right track. The tone of this book is non-judgmental, optimistic, and so understanding toward Luddite parents like me, who have so much to learn. You don't have to be an expert in Pokémon Go or Roblox; you just have to get comfortable enough in your kids' world to guide them through it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mentoring vs Monitoring
*by A***R on July 4, 2019*

I began reading this in search of guidelines for more structured screentime. While this didn't really address that directly, it challenged my attitude toward technology and its place in our home and children's lives. I liked the positive outlook and questions posed which encouraged me to examine my concerns and what I am comfortable with happening in our home. It also provides excellent questions for discussion with our children as well as further resources.

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