Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers by Lucy Jo Palladino

Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers by Lucy Jo Palladino

Are your kids unable to step away from the screens? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide that gives parents the tools to teach children, from toddlers to teens, how to gain control of their technology use.

As children spend more of their time on tablets and smartphones, using apps specially engineered to capture their attention, parents are concerned about the effects of so much technology use--and feel powerless to intervene. They want their kids to be competent and competitive in their use of technology, but they also want to prevent the attention problems that can develop from overuse. Lucy Jo Palladino shows that the key is to help kids build awareness and control over their own attention, and in this guide she gives parents the tools to do exactly that, in seven straightforward, evidence-based steps.

Parents will learn the best practices to guide children to understand and control their attention-and to recognize and resist when their attention is being "snatched." This approach can be modified for kids of all ages. Parents will also learn the critical difference between voluntary and involuntary attention, new findings about brain development, and what puts children at risk for attention disorders.

Dreamers, Discoverers, and Dynamos: How to Assist the Child Who Is Brilliant, Bored, and Experiencing School Difficulties (previously named The Edison Trait) is written by Lucy Jo Palladino, PhD. She has thirty years of expertise as an award-winning psychologist and attention expert. Dr. Palladino has earned multiple federal research grants, written numerous publications in professional journals, and presented papers at national conferences. He lectures across the country. She has also completed advanced sports psychology training and served on the clinical faculty of the University of Arizona Medical School. Family Circle, Men's Health, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Web MD have all published her research findings.

She has recently appeared as the resident psychologist on KFMB-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Diego, California's The Morning Show. Visit www.YourFocusZone.com to discover more about her work.

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ISBN 13	9781611802177
ISBN 10	1611802172
Title	Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers
Author	Lucy Jo Palladino
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Shambhala Publications Inc
Year published	2015-04-28
Number of pages	208
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