The Mediatrician's Guide: A Joyful Approach to Raising Healthy, Smart, Kind Kids in a Screen-Saturated World - Rilegato

Rich, Michael, M.D.

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ISBN 10: 0785255729 ISBN 13: 9780785255727

Casa editrice: Harperhorizon, 2024

Riassunto

Gain the confidence you need to raise a child well in the digital age.

In this positive, science-based approach, Dr. Michael Rich addresses your questions and concerns about your childrens’ screen time and media use. The Mediatrician’s Guide empowers you to guide your family toward smart and healthy digital choices.

Known as the “Mediatrician” due to his acclaimed work as a pediatrician, child health researcher, and children’s media specialist, Dr. Rich presents a compassionate and encouraging look at the reality of growing up in a screen-saturated world. You won’t find fearmongering here—just accessible explanations, case studies, and practical tips to help your kids thrive in a technology-rich environment and emerge as happy, well-informed, empathetic adults.

Features include:

• Ask the Mediatrician: Questions and answers based on Dr. Rich’s long-running advice column and podcast
• Media Rx: Prescriptive content based on insights from the Digital Wellness Lab and the Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders
• You Can: Straightforward instructions for what you can do to guide your child in the digital landscape
• Digital Wellness Primer: A one-stop resource for actionable advice that you can customize for your family’s specific needs

Backed by evidence as well as decades of professional and personal practice, The Mediatrican's Guide will give you peace of mind and your kids much-needed tools to navigate the digital environment in a way that reduces the risks to their physical and mental health and their emotional and social development.

 

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Informazioni sugli autori

Michael Rich, MD, MPH is an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and practices adolescent medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Pediatrician, child health researcher, father, and filmmaker, Dr. Rich is the founder and director of the Digital Wellness Lab and the first evidence-based medical program addressing physical, mental, and social health issues associated with digital technology use, the Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders (CIMAID). As the Mediatrician, Dr. Rich offers research-based, actionable, and practical answers to parents’, educators’, and clinicians’ questions about children’s and adolescents’ media use and the positive and negative implications for their health and development.

Co-writer of the New York Times bestseller Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys and other Wall Street Journal, amazon.com and Goodreads top picks, Teresa H. Barker writes about health and child development, parenting, creative aging, and life passages. Formerly of Oregon, she now lives in Chicago.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Harperhorizon
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0785255729
• ISBN 13: 9780785255727
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 403
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