Navigate Family Technology explores the modern family’s dilemma of how to help children thrive without letting technology consume them, focusing on topics such as communication struggles, social media traps, empathy loss, anxiety, and sleep disruption. Did you find anything in your research of this story that surprised you?

I learned so much while researching the book, I’ll try to narrow the answer down to a few!

• That most Modern Tech executives strictly limit their family’s tech-use time and send the kids to low-tech schools
• The number of online predators actively working every day
• The amount of information we take in daily compared to 20 years ago
• The staggering number of hours of screen time displaces connection and well-being activities

What were some ideas that were important for you to share in this book?

My mission is about illuminating human connection in a disconnected modern world. Technology is one of the key drivers of this. We are often alone together on individual devices.

I also found it important to cover technology’s impact on empathy and distress tolerance.

What is one thing that you hope readers take away from Navigate Family Technology?

That overuse of technology is not our fault. Or our kids’ fault. But now that we understand the problem, it’s our responsibility to be intentional about it. And that we can do it – we have so much living to do and real-world connections to make.

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