Parenting Generation Screen: Guiding Your Kids to Be Wise in a Digital World

What Every Parent Needs to Know about Screens and Their Kids
Maybe your kids are like many others—glued to their smartphones, social media, and streaming entertainment. While we know excessive screen time, especially social media, isn’t healthy, how do we teach our kids to become screenwise?

Prioritizing connection over correction, Parenting Generation Screen equips you with key questions and conversations to help you process screen limits with and for your kids. You’ll learn how to dialogue in meaningful ways about social media, entertainment, and screen time so they learn to be wise in the digital world.

Jonathan McKee speaks and writes worldwide about technology and social media for families—and has three kids of his own. He addresses such questions as:At what age should my child get a phone or screen?Can my kid have a phone in their bedroom?How does social media affect my teen’s mental health and sleep?What dangers are really lurking on social media?How can I best use parental controls?In this extremely practical book, you’ll gain confidence and find answers you need to set boundaries, guide your kids, and help them navigate the digital landscape.

“Every parent knows that screens can be devastating for kids but have no idea how to set boundaries that kids will actually honor. In Parenting Generation Screen, Jonathan gives advice that not only dissipates that fear but teaches us step-by-step how to set those boundaries. Most extraordinary is that his method actually helps kids grow closer to their parents. No parent in the 20th Century can afford not to read this book.” —Meg Meeker, MD, national best-selling author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters.

“I think I will keep a stack of Jonathan’s Parenting Generation Screen in my car to hand to parents I dialogue with each week . . . because it deals with the exact issues they ask me about: When do I give my kids a phone? Should I let them have it in their bedroom? How much social media is too much? I love the wisdom and practicality Jonathan brings to his books . . . and wish I had this one five to ten years ago!” —Shaunti Feldhahn, best-selling author of For Women Only and For Parents Only

“In a world where the average age kids get their first smartphone is just 10-years-old, parents are struggling to keep up with their children’s interaction with screens. Parenting Generation Screen gives moms and dads the tools they need, not only to provide healthy screen limits, but also to engage their kids in ongoing conversations about becoming screen-wise.” —Doug Fields, author of Intentional Parenting

“Wow—every parent needs this book! Not only will it answer a multitude of questions you have, but it will help you ask and answer questions you have never even thought about. Jonathan's book is the most practical and comprehensive book I've ever read on this topic. Once you read it, you'll want to give it to every parent you know.” —Cynthia Ulrich Tobias, best-selling author of 14 books, including You Can’t Make Me (But I Can be Persuaded), The Way They Learn, The Way We Work, Every Child Can Succeed, and A Woman of Strength and Purpose