Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids

What it is

Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is an addiction expert, and Glow Kids makes an aggressive argument: that glowing screens affect the developing brain along the same dopamine pathways as stimulant drugs, and that a generation raised on them is showing the consequences in attention, mood and behaviour. He draws on brain-imaging research and his own clinical cases. In this directory it belongs upstream of the pornography conversation — a child's relationship with a device is the soil pornography grows in, and this is the book that makes parents take the device itself seriously. Secular and clinical rather than faith-based, and its tone is deliberately alarming, which some readers will find bracing and others overstated; the underlying research is real but the framing is polemical. Read it for the argument, not for a parenting plan.

What it may help with

• I want to protect my kids
• I want to understand the science

How to access it

Hardcover, paperback, ebook and audiobook (St. Martin's Press) Purchase from a bookseller

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