Rebooting Childhood: How to Balance Screen Time, Build Relationships, and Help Kids Thrive

Welcome to Rebooting Childhood: How to Balance Screen Time, Build Relationships, and Help Kids Thrive—a roadmap for parents, caregivers, and those serving children who want to transform the way they connect with their child in today’s digital world.

This book is for you if you are:

• A parent who wants to know how to handle (and dare we say, prevent) screen time meltdowns, tech tantrums and social media storms.

• A caregiver looking for ways to stay connected when their kid’s digital world starts to disrupt real-life relationships.

• An educator, school counselor or therapist wanting strategies to share with families to help them balance digital media use and healthy development.

• Anyone raising a young person navigating the constant pressure of likes, tweets, influencers, streaks, emojis, trends, and algorithms.

Rooted in the science of how kids grow, the way their brains develop and the healing power of relationships, Rebooting Childhood introduces readers to a new way of managing, and responding to, the endless digital disruption that is currently reshaping childhood and parenting. Drawing on decades of expertise from Chaddock’s Developmental Trauma and Attachment Program (DTAP®), this book shows caregivers how to move beyond power struggles, balance tech-time and build the relationships kids need to thrive in a digital world.