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Film

Screenagers

Delaney Ruston, MD

A physician-filmmaker turns the camera on her own family's screen-time struggles. The one most schools screen first.

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The Social Dilemma

Jeff Orlowski · Netflix

The people who built the feeds explain how they're engineered to hold attention — and why that's so hard to walk away from.

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Childhood 2.0

Bark

Parents, kids and experts on what children actually run into online — the parts most of us never see.

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Can’t Look Away

Bloomberg Originals

An investigation into families who say social platforms harmed their kids, and the legal fight that followed.

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Parenting in the Screen Age

Delaney Ruston, MD

Short, practical episodes from the Screenagers team on the day-to-day of raising kids around screens.

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1000 Hours Outside

Ginny Yurich

Conversations about trading screen hours for outdoor hours, and what happens to a family when you do.

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Healthy Screen Habits

Healthy Screen Habits

Tools and interviews from the nonprofit of the same name, aimed squarely at parents who want something to try this week.

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Screen Less Play More

Screen Less Play More

On putting play, boredom and unstructured time back into childhood — and holding the line when it's inconvenient.

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It’s Complicated

It’s Time To Log Off

Conversations about our tangled relationship with technology, and what a real digital detox looks like.

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Scrolling2Death

Nicki Reisberg

Interviews with parents, researchers and advocates on the harms of social media to kids. Frank, and not always easy.

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The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

The case that a phone-based childhood rewired adolescence — and the four norms for turning it around. Start here.

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Free-Range Kids

Lenore Skenazy

The case for handing kids back real independence, from the mom who let her nine-year-old ride the subway alone.

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Thrivers

Michele Borba, EdD

The character traits that separate kids who thrive from kids who merely perform — and how to build them.

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The Teenage Brain

Frances E. Jensen, MD, with Amy Ellis Nutt

A neurologist on what is actually happening inside an adolescent brain. Explains a lot of Tuesday nights.

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How to Break Up with Your Phone

Catherine Price

A short, doable plan for changing your own phone habits — which is usually where a family plan has to start.

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The Power of Fun

Catherine Price

What real fun actually is, why scrolling isn't it, and how to get more of the real thing back into a week.

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Never Enough

Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Achievement culture, the pressure it puts on kids, and what it is quietly costing them.

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Mattering

Jennifer Breheny Wallace

On the need to feel valued and depended on — at home, at school, in a community — and why it protects kids.

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Dopamine Nation

Anna Lembke, MD

A psychiatrist on pleasure, pain and compulsion in an age of endless abundance. The science under the screen-time fight.

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The Mediatrician’s Guide

Michael Rich, MD

A pediatrician's measured, age-by-age approach to raising kids in a screen-saturated world. Less alarm, more practice.

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Human Raised

Human Raised

On what it means to raise children as humans first, alongside technology built to hold their attention.

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The Take Back

Weeva

How we can reclaim our lives from big media and tech — written for people who want to do something about it.

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Bowling Alone

Robert D. Putnam

The landmark account of how American community life came apart. The backdrop to everything else on this page.

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Let Grow

letgrow.org

Free programs schools and families can run tomorrow to give kids more independence. Genuinely practical.

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The Anxious Generation

anxiousgeneration.com

The book's companion site: action guides for parents, schools and communities, plus the four norms in full.

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The Childhood Index

childhoodindex.org

Data on the state of childhood — useful when you need numbers rather than anecdotes in front of a school board.

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Distraction Free Schools

Policy Project

Model policies and organizing resources for districts going bell-to-bell phone free. Bring this to your board meeting.

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Institute for Families & Technology

instituteforfamiliesandtechnology.org

Research and guidance for families working out how technology fits into their own home.

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Common Sense Media

commonsensemedia.org

Age ratings and honest reviews for films, games, apps and shows. The thing to check before you say yes.

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