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  • Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World
  • Written by: Jordan Shapiro
  • Narrated by: Jordan Shapiro
  • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

A provocative look at the new digital landscape of childhood and how to navigate it.

In The New Childhood, Jordan Shapiro provides a hopeful counterpoint to the fearful hand-wringing that has come to define our narrative around children and technology. Drawing on groundbreaking research in economics, psychology, philosophy, and education, The New Childhood shows how technology is guiding humanity toward a bright future in which our children will be able to create new, better models of global citizenship, connection, and community.

Shapiro offers concrete, practical advice on how to parent and educate children effectively in a connected world and provides tools and techniques for using technology to engage with kids and help them learn and grow. He compares this moment in time to other great technological revolutions in humanity's past and presents entertaining microhistories of cultural fixtures: the sandbox, finger painting, the family dinner, and more. But most importantly, The New Childhood paints a timely, inspiring, and positive picture of today's children, recognizing that they are poised to create a progressive, diverse, meaningful, and hyperconnected world that today's adults can only barely imagine.

©2018 Jordan Shapiro (P)2018 Hachette Audio

What the critics say

"For those who lament what the 'app generation' may lack, Jordan Shapiro offers a timely, reassuring scenario." (Howard Gardner)

"Timely, essential, and thought-provoking, The New Childhood is the must-read parenting guide for raising 21st century, digitally driven kids. Instead of raising a white flag and giving in to social media and the Internet, Jordan Shapiro tells parents how to embrace technology, stay involved in their children's lives, and prepare them for their future. Read it! I promise you'll rethink your parenting. I couldn't put it down" (Michele Borba, EdD, author of UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World)

"Placing modern child-rearing in the context of the long story of human cultural adaption, this manual makes the challenges of screens more approachable, and the adult role in meeting them clearer." (Publishers Weekly)

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