Baby, Unplugged: One Mother’s Search for Balance, Reason, and Sanity in the Digital Age

Summary

A

charming, meticulously researched, and illuminating look at how technology

infiltrates every aspect of raising children today, filled with helpful advice

parents can use to best navigate the digital landscape, and ultimately learn to

trust their own judgment.

There's

an app or device for nearly every aspect of parenting today:

monitoring your baby; entertaining or educating your toddler; connecting with

other new parents for tips, tricks, and community—virtually every aspect of

daily life. But it isn't a parenting paradise; the truth is much more

complicated. 

The

mother of two young daughters, journalist Sophie Brickman wondered what

living in a tech-saturated world was doing to her and her children. She turned

to experts, academics, doctors, and innovators for advice and insight. Baby,

Unplugged brings together Brickman's in-depth research with her own

candid (sometimes hilarious) personal experience to help parents sort through

the wide and often confusing tech offerings available today and to sort out

what's helpful and what's not.

Filled

with relatable and entertaining stories as well as practical takeaways, Baby,

Unplugged is destined to become a touchstone for parents today, giving

them the permission to forge their own path through the morass of technological

options, to restore their faith in themselves, and to help them raise good,

social, and engaged people in the modern world.