Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat: Strategies for Solving the Real Parenting Problems (Virtues: Strategies for Solving the Real Parenting Problems)

Synopsis

Screens Are Seductive. We See It In Our Toddlers, Begging For Tablets. We See It In Our Pre-teens, Leading Double Lives On Tumblr. We See It In Ourselves, Too, As Much Of Our Time Gets Sucked Into News Feeds And Emails. From A Parenting Vantage, Technology Has Been The Holy Grail, Allowing Us To Outsource The Unpleasant Tasks And Give Ourselves A Break. No Clean-up After Painting When It's Done On A Tablet. No Complaints Of I'm Bored On A Road Trip When There's A Game-loaded Smartphone. No Screams When You Have To Take A Call If The Kids Are Absorbed In A Screen Rather Than Running Around The House. But, As Many Parents Have Guessed From Their Distracted, Sedentary, And Incessantly Anxious-about-what-might-be-going-on-without-them Kids, There Some Things You Just Can't Out-source: You Have To Be The Parent.--book Jacket Naomi Schaefer Riley. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 225-240) And Index.