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    Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World
    Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World
    Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World
    Audiobook6 hours

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

    Written by Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane

    Narrated by Chris Fabry

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    About this audiobook

    Is technology bringing your family closer together or driving you farther apart?

    Children today are no longer playing hide-and-seek outside or curling up with a good book - instead they've been introduced to a world of constant digital entertainment through television, video games, and mobile devices. And while technology has the potential to add value to our lives and families, it can also erode a sense of togetherness and hinder a child’s emotional and social development.

    In Growing Up Social, Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane will empower you with the necessary tools to make positive changes starting today. Through stories, wit, and wisdom, you’ll discover how to take back your home from an over-dependence on screens. Plus, you'll learn to teach the five A+ skills that every healthy child needs to master: affection, appreciation, anger management, apology, and attention.

    Equip your child to be relationally rich in a digital world. Replace mindless screen time with meaningful family time. Establish simple boundaries that make a huge difference. Discover what's working for families that have become screen savvy. Learn healthy ways to occupy your child while you get things done. Now is the time to equip your child to live with screen time, not for screen time.

    No phone, tablet, or gaming device can teach your child how to have healthy relationships - only you can.


    ©2014 Gary Chapman (P)2014 Oasis Audio

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2014
    ISBN9781621884293
    Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World
    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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    • 5/5
      I love how they explain the practical tips in order to discipline a child in this screen driven world.
    • 5/5
      This book is the perfect balance of challenging ideas about tech in our lives and practical advice on how to make changes.
    • 3/5
      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.