Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Summary: Argues that a major cultural shift—what Haidt calls the “great rewiring of childhood”—occurred around 2010, when smartphones, social media, and a retreat from real-world play collided.
Reset Your Child’s Brain by Victoria L. Dunckley
Summary: Offers a 4-week program to treat behavioral and emotional issues caused by electronic screen syndrome. Highly practical and clinically based.
Free-Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy
Summary: Challenges modern parenting norms driven by fear and overprotection. The book promotes giving children more independence, arguing that helicopter parenting is doing more harm than good by stifling confidence, resilience, and real-world competence.
Glow Kids by Nicholas Kardaras
Summary: Written by an addiction expert, it draws direct parallels between screen addiction and drug addiction. Packed with case studies and brain science.
The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age by Catherine Steiner-Adair
Summary: The book offers advice for creating healthier digital boundaries, fostering emotional connections, and re-establishing rituals that nurture family life.
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Summary: Digital minimalists are all around us. They’re the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can get lost in a good book, a woodworking project, or a leisurely morning run. They can have fun with friends and family without the obsessive urge to document the experience.
iGen by Jean Twenge
Summary: Full of data and research, it helps teens and adults understand generational shifts driven by screen time. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults.
Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris
Summary: Combating the idea of adolescence as a vacation from responsibility, Alex and Brett Harris weave together biblical insights, history, and modern examples to redefine the teen years as the launching pad of life and map a clear trajectory for long-term fulfillment and eternal impact.
The Social Dilemma
Summary: Features former tech insiders from Google, Facebook, and Twitter, revealing how social media is designed to manipulate behavior and increase addiction.
Childhood 2.0
Summary: Unflinching look at what it’s like to grow up in the digital age. Features interviews with teens, parents, and experts in law enforcement, education, and mental health.
Screened Out
Summary: Personal and investigative journey into how screen addiction affects families and society. Offers a hopeful tone with strategies for recovery and change.
Plugged In: The True Toxicity of Social Media Revealed
Summary: Covers the mental health crisis, addiction, misinformation, and culture wars caused by social media. Features interviews with doctors, therapists, and teens.
Being13: Inside the Secret World of Teens (CNN Special Report)
Summary: Based on a major study of 200 teens’ social media activity. Looks at how peer validation, exclusion, and anxiety drive online behavior.
TED Talks by Tristan Harris
Summary: The implications of AI as new technology rolls out.
TED Talks by Steve Baskins
Summary: Drawing on his experience of running summer camps for children, Baskin makes the case for ‘unplugged’ time for young people. Turn off the tech and turn on oral communication, collaboration and creativity–these top skills for life need practicing in face-to-face situations.
Game Quitters
Summary: They discuss the factors that can lead to gaming becoming a problem, as well as the common effects, both positive and negative. Ultimately, you will find various treatment options, including self-help and peer support options, as well as professional support.
Digital Training
Summary: The curriculum brings together research, clinical work and lived experience of gamers. Students will gain knowledge of gaming culture, motivations for gaming, predatory game design, known harms of excessive gaming, comorbidities, risks, and protective factors in developing gaming disorder, and specific strategies and considerations in working with clients who struggle with gaming.
Social Harms
Summary: Gov. Cox’s campaign. Your child’s brain is developing rapidly, making them more susceptible to the harms of social media. And though they might put on a brave face, they could be hurting underneath. It’s time to unmask the harms of social media.
Protect Young Eyes
Summary: Creating digital safety in homes and schools; parent discussion area and presentations available. Learn the five habits of a tech-ready home.
Christian-Based Digital Citizenship
Summary: The Tech-Ready Home listened to parents’ concerns and created a course that will give you calm, confidence, and a tech-savviness you didn’t know was possible. We love helping parents like you discover their digital superpowers!
Kids Brains & Screens
Summary: By understanding the “why” behind the screen struggle, families can finally make healthy habits stick while building stronger bonds and helping kids reach their full potential.
Covenant Eyes
Summary: Covenant Eyes shields your devices and sends a feed of your activity to your ally in the fight to break porn addiction. Knowing someone else is going to see your screen activity helps addicts find lasting freedom.
Screen Strong
Summary: Empowers families to prevent screen problems and reclaim their kids from toxic screens: social media, video games, and pornography.
Fight the New Drug
Summary: Educates communities and raises awareness on the harms of pornography and the difference between love and lust.
Wait Until 8th
Summary: Empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade. Let’s protect the elementary and middle school years from the distractions and the dangers of a smartphone. Banding together helps decrease the pressure to have a phone at an early age.
Family Tec University
Summary: The Internal Filter Workshop is an online, self-paced, multi-week training experience for young people ages 12+. It seamlessly presents teen friendly training on all things online, opportunities to practice good tech habits, and built-in prompts for crucial conversations with your child.
More Than a Body
Summary: Positive body image isn’t believing your body looks good, it’s knowing your body is good, regardless of how it looks. This refined definition of positive body image provides the foundation for their work to arm people with the tools to build resilience in a culture that objectifies and commodifies bodies.
My Best Self
Summary: This website is dedicated to the science and personal application of the “greatest hits” of positive psychology and mindfulness practices. You’ll learn how to apply research-based principles to enhance the strengths and virtues that promote human thriving and to nurture your love for life.
Smart Phone Free Childhoods
Summary: Find aligned organizations nationwide with the same mission. Learn about the latest legislation and upcoming webinars. Their mission is to inspire and empower parents to make smartphone-free childhoods a reality by sharing practical ideas, advice, and resources. And supporting each other along the way.
The Balance Project
Summary: Explore their curated selection of devices and technology and discover how the right features can seamlessly integrate into your lifestyle, helping you stay focused, productive, and in control.
Better Screen Time
Summary: In the Tech-Healthy Family Hub you’ll learn from experts and like-minded parents, access proven resources, and take their self-guided courses to prepare your family to navigate a tech-heavy world with confidence.
Bark
Summary: Bark scans your child’s text messages, 30+ social media apps, web browsers, emails, and other online activity, keeping you informed and your child protected.
Circle
Summary: Let your kids browse online safely. Filter harmful sites and easily manage how much time they spend on apps like YouTube, Roblox, SnapChat and more. All powered by Circle’s award-winning technology, used by hundreds of thousands of parents.
Angel Q
Summary: AngelQ wasn’t just made safe for kids—it was built for them. No complicated controls or setup required. Angel is an app that is safe from start to finish.
Daylight DC-1 Computer
Summary: The world’s first human-friendly computer that your brain and eyes will actually love.
Brick
Summary: A physical device that temporarily removes distracting apps & their notifications from your phone. Designed for simplicity. No subscriptions. No complex setups. Just more time for what matters.
