Reset Your Child’s Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time Paperback – July 14, 2015
Author: Victoria L. Dunckley MD ID: 1608682846
Review
— Craig Malkin, PhD, instructor in psychology, Harvard Medical School, and author of Rethinking Narcissism
“Readers will . . . feel relieved to have such a helpful guide to teaching children that there is more to life than staring at a screen.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Dr. Victoria Dunckley has given every child psychiatrist and pediatrician in America a wonderful gift. This book gives us a tool to share with the parents of the millions of children in the US who are agitated, unfocused, and out of control. She also answers the question about why this problem has accelerated in the last decade: it is screen-time, not a lack of Ritalin. I completely agree with her premise and her interventions. Thank you!”
— Scott Shannon, MD, integrative child psychiatrist, past president of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, and author of Please Don’t Label My Child
“Parents will probably recoil from the idea of taking their children’s cell phones and laptops away from them. Let them know that Dunckley acknowledges the mountain that she is asking them to climb and, not only gives them thorough reasons for doing it, but also a highly detailed plan for accomplishing it.”
— Retailing Insight
“This practical and easy-to-read guide is a much-needed wake-up call for this digital age. Buy Reset Your Child’s Brain for your family, your school, and your local library.”
— Kerry Crofton, PhD, cofounder and executive director of Doctors for Safer Schools and author of A Wellness Guide for the Digital Age
“This book looks at how electronic media use can affect the central nervous system long after the offending device has actually been used — an effect similar to that of drug addiction. It presents new studies that show how, as with drug use, functioning may not be impaired immediately, and in some cases it may even improve initially but then becomes worse. Finally, Dr. Dunckley outlines issues in diagnosis, in assessment, and most important, in treatment for battling and resetting the brain to overcome the rapidly emergent condition of Electronic Screen Syndrome.”
— Dr. Kimberly S. Young, founder and director of the Center for Internet Addiction and NetAddiction.com
“One of the problems worldwide that relates to this book is sleep deprivation. This has many consequences and — to put it bluntly — makes the sleep-deprived person fat, lazy, stupid, and depressed! The more that books like this expose the problem, the sooner we will be moving to a higher and more secure state of well-being!”
— John J. Ratey, MD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and author of Spark
“Victoria Dunckley makes a convincing case that parents should be very concerned about their children’s constant exposure to electronic screen–based entertainment. Citing medical research as well as her work with hundreds of patients, Dr. Dunckley explains how electronic media overwhelm children’s nervous systems and impair their physical and mental functioning. Families who follow her practical approach to discontinuing electronic screen-time will see dramatic improvement in their children’s health and behavior.”
— Jessica Solodar, award-winning medical journalist and former medical writer for Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry and the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
“Parents are constantly asking, ‘What are the effects of screen use on my kids, how much is too much, and how can I regulate the use of screens by my kids?’ Finally, thanks to Dr. Dunckley’s Reset Program, parents have the answers and the tools to work on a solution!”
— Ann Corwin, PhD, MEd, parenting education consultant, TheParentingDoctor.com
About the Author
Paperback: 384 pagesPublisher: New World Library (July 14, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1608682846ISBN-13: 978-1608682843 Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #19,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #13 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Children’s Health > Learning Disorders #22 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Mental Health > Attention Deficit & Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders #23 in Books > Self-Help > Emotions
Required Reading for 21st Century Parents
Electronic screen stimulation has transformed our lives in the early 21st century. It has been embraced by parents and educators with an unquestioning blind optimism and the kind of faith usually reserved for messiahs. We have handed the lives of our children to the alter of technology surrendering them to endless self-stimulation and simulated excitement. This has exhausted them and left them surly and unhappily bored looking for the next electronic fix. They have become further and further disconnected from life as it is really lived. They are left without the skills they need to deal to enjoy real life with its kaleidoscope of interpersonal relationships all taking place in a four dimensional world full of nature and other livings agents.
Victoria Dunckley’s book is a corrective and antidote to the corrosive view that technology only brings good things to children and young adults. Again and again she demonstrates convincingly with case reports from her own practice of child after child damaged by electronic screen stimulation. Robust connections are made to a long list of current mental illnesses afflicting children today. AHD, ADHD, bipolar are just a few of the conditions ravaging the lives of youth in numbers never seen before the introduction of this electronic screen-centric lifestyle that our children are living today. Victoria Dunckley’s wonderful discovery is that these very same conditions can be ameliorated or indeed cured by the simple expedient of by a ‘Screen Reset’.
During a ‘Screen Reset’ all interactive electronic screen stimulation is removed from the child’s life. For three weeks the child’s brain is allowed to rest and recover from the relentless stimulation of these screen devices.
I’ve often written about the dangers of teen substance abuse. Now parents need to add one more danger to the list: the potential for excessive screen time to derail normal development of the PFC.
In her new book, Reset Your Child’s Brain, Dr. Victoria Dunckley describes in detail how teen use of cell phones, TV, computers, laptops, tablets, and video game consoles can create symptoms that look like ADD, ADHD and autism, while physically retarding the normal development of your child’s brain.
Education expert Jane Healy sounded the alarm years ago about the negative effects of screen time in <em>Endangered Minds (1990) and Failure to Connect (1999), but even though her books have been best-sellers, the situation in the youth culture has gotten much worse in recent years.
Motivated by the belief that computers will enhance learning, school systems everywhere are spending billions of dollars to introduce technology to the classroom, even though the research shows the most of these initiatives have little or no positive effect on learning.
Television screen technology and programming have advanced. Nearly every home in the U.S. has a wide thin-screen television, and more innovations are on the way.
A new, more advanced version of cell phones appears on the market every years or so, and young people want them to "stay connected." One survey reported that the average teenager sends 100 text messages a day.</li>
Video games are now a more lucrative business than motion pictures. The holy grail for game producers is virtual reality, a screen experience so real that it doesn’t seem like a simulation; and they are getting ever closer to their goal.
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