Ten Tips for Parenting the Smartphone Generation

Gregory L. Jantz Ph.D., Ann McMurray

• Publisher: Aspire Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781628623710
• Print ISBN:
  9781628623703

Ever feel like your kids are speaking a different language? Apps and tablets and new smart-this and smart-that every day! Dr. Gregory Jantz gives you practical tips on how to know when technology is helping or hurting your children. He takes you through the key questions you need to ask and how to discover the answers to keep your kids on the right track in their rapidly changing world.

In this easy-to-understand guide, you will gain the confidence to—

• Set a good example in regulating screen time, increasing quality family time
• Establish positive and educational uses of technology
• Set boundaries and parent controls to protect your children from bad habits, cyber-bullies, and online predators
• and more!

Children spend an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes a day on digital media, plugged in and glued to screens, according to recent studies. That's 5.5 hours over the recommended limit, often leading to poor school performance, behavioral problems, neck pain, and much more. With Dr. Gregory Jantz's Ten Tips for Parenting The Smartphone Generation learn to avoid the negative consequences and enjoy watching your child gain the most out of technology.

3 Key Features of Ten Tips for Parenting the Smartphone Generation

1. Easy-to-Read Practical Advice—Enjoy getting practical and effective tips on teaching your children to manage media that you can start applying now. Includes setting your own boundaries and standards, tracking and monitoring your child's phone and internet use, and encouraging scriptures for support!
2. Covers the Key Topics on Parenting in the Age of Technology—Enjoy having the major elements of raising kids into followers of Christ in one booklet!
3. Based on Solid Research and Biblical Advice—Get answers to common questions about kids and technology!

Ten Tips to Parenting the Smartphone Generation is perfect for individual and group use. Great for counseling, new parents' groups, single moms' groups, church giveaways, and more!

Table of contents

• Fish and Scorpions
• Practice What You Preach
• Figure Out How Much Is Too Much
• Remember—If You Bought It, It’s Yours
• Find the Off Switch
• Watch Out for the Bad
• Enjoy the Good
• Look Inside, Not Just Outside
• Find Out What You Don’t Know
• Pray for the Best, but Plan for the Worst
• Keep Up with Changes
• Notes