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    Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World

    By Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane

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    Has Technology Taken Over Your Home?

    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, you’ll discover how to take back your home from an overdependence on screens. Plus, you’ll learn to teach the five A+ skills that every child needs to master: affection, appreciation, anger management, apology, and attention. Learn how to:

    • Protect and nurture your child’s growing brain
    • Establish simple boundaries that make a huge difference
    • Recognize the warning signs of gaming too much
    • Raise a child who won’t gauge success through social media
    • Teach your child to be safe online

    This newly revised edition features the latest research and interactive assessments, so you can best confront the issues technology create in your home. Now is the time to equip your child with a healthy relationship with screens and an even healthier relationship with others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    ISBN9780802487773
    Author

    Gary Chapman

    Gary Chapman--author, speaker, counselor--has a passion for people and for helping them form lasting relationships. He is the #1 bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages series and director of Marriage and Family Life Consultants, Inc. Gary travels the world presenting seminars, and his radio programs air on more than four hundred stations. For more information visit his website at www.5lovelanguages.com.

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      Restricting your tech savvy children these days in their online time isn't popular. Just as tricky as the previous generation parents wrestled with whether or not granting a television in each bed room to avoid arguments in the living room. In Growing Up Social Gary D. Chapman & Arlene Pellicane address the effects of ever more 'screen time' for children (and parents). While technology brought us many goods (work and shop from home, contacting people wherever they reside, outsourcing), on establishing and maintaining social relationships the authors see a lot of bad influences. Five skills that are elaborated are affection, appreciation, anger management, apology and attention. Learn to equip your child to be relationally rich in a digital world, replace mindless screen time with meaningful family time and establish boundaries. Combined with applying relevant love languages (Gary Chapman wrote The Five Love Languages in 1995), your family will be more social and coherent. Once and again the authors warn you not to condemn other parents or to expect the world to change for you. You can make a difference in your own (extended) family. The bad side of screen time is emphasized too much in my opinion. A shorter version of the book could have the same powerful message: protect your family time and don't let screens in whatever format rule your world.

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