Resources
The Library
The books, podcasts, films and organizations behind the movement — the ones we hand to parents who ask us, "okay, where do I start?" Filter by what you have time for tonight.
Screenagers
Delaney Ruston, MD
A physician-filmmaker turns the camera on her own family's screen-time struggles. The one most schools screen first.
Watch → FilmThe 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.
Watch → FilmChildhood 2.0
Bark
Parents, kids and experts on what children actually run into online — the parts most of us never see.
Watch → FilmCan’t Look Away
Bloomberg Originals
An investigation into families who say social platforms harmed their kids, and the legal fight that followed.
Watch → PodcastParenting in the Screen Age
Delaney Ruston, MD
Short, practical episodes from the Screenagers team on the day-to-day of raising kids around screens.
Listen → Podcast1000 Hours Outside
Ginny Yurich
Conversations about trading screen hours for outdoor hours, and what happens to a family when you do.
Listen → PodcastHealthy 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.
Listen → PodcastScreen 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.
Listen → PodcastIt’s Complicated
It’s Time To Log Off
Conversations about our tangled relationship with technology, and what a real digital detox looks like.
Listen → PodcastScrolling2Death
Nicki Reisberg
Interviews with parents, researchers and advocates on the harms of social media to kids. Frank, and not always easy.
Listen → BookThe Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
The case that a phone-based childhood rewired adolescence — and the four norms for turning it around. Start here.
Find the book → BookFree-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.
Find the book → BookThrivers
Michele Borba, EdD
The character traits that separate kids who thrive from kids who merely perform — and how to build them.
Find the book → BookThe 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.
Find the book → BookHow 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.
Find the book → BookThe 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.
Find the book → BookNever Enough
Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Achievement culture, the pressure it puts on kids, and what it is quietly costing them.
Find the book → BookMattering
Jennifer Breheny Wallace
On the need to feel valued and depended on — at home, at school, in a community — and why it protects kids.
Find the book → BookDopamine Nation
Anna Lembke, MD
A psychiatrist on pleasure, pain and compulsion in an age of endless abundance. The science under the screen-time fight.
Find the book → BookThe 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.
Find the book → BookHuman Raised
Human Raised
On what it means to raise children as humans first, alongside technology built to hold their attention.
Find the book → BookThe Take Back
Weeva
How we can reclaim our lives from big media and tech — written for people who want to do something about it.
Find the book → BookBowling Alone
Robert D. Putnam
The landmark account of how American community life came apart. The backdrop to everything else on this page.
Find the book → OrganizationLet Grow
letgrow.org
Free programs schools and families can run tomorrow to give kids more independence. Genuinely practical.
Visit → GuidesThe Anxious Generation
anxiousgeneration.com
The book's companion site: action guides for parents, schools and communities, plus the four norms in full.
Visit → ResearchThe Childhood Index
childhoodindex.org
Data on the state of childhood — useful when you need numbers rather than anecdotes in front of a school board.
Visit → GuidesDistraction Free Schools
Policy Project
Model policies and organizing resources for districts going bell-to-bell phone free. Bring this to your board meeting.
Visit → OrganizationInstitute for Families & Technology
instituteforfamiliesandtechnology.org
Research and guidance for families working out how technology fits into their own home.
Visit → OrganizationCommon 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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