Is Your Child Addicted To Electronics?: 30 Days Of Healing And Recovery For Your Child And Family - Softcover

Driskell LPC, Nathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1521552215 ISBN 13: 9781521552216

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

Synopsis

Your son is on the game again. Dinner is cold. You have called three times, and the third time you were shouting.

You have tried everything you can think of. You grounded him from the console and he found where you hid it. You took the tablet and he used your phone. Every conversation about screens ends the same way, and somehow you are the one who ends up apologizing.

Someone has probably told you the answer is simple: take the phone away and just talk to your kid. You have talked. That is not the problem. The problem is that every one of those conversations was about screens — how long, how late, why not, put it down. Your child has heard that conversation two hundred times and has learned to wait it out.

This book begins with the conversations nobody has had yet. What is that game actually giving him? What is she afraid of? What happens in their day that makes six hours of a screen look better than being present in it?

Nathan Driskell is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has treated internet and gaming addiction for more than sixteen years. He also spent six years of his own life inside an online game, through most of college, and walked away from it. When your child says you have no idea what this feels like, he does.

Thirty days. One short chapter a day. Most take fifteen to thirty minutes, and every chapter tells you what it will cost you before you begin. Four days ask nothing at all.

By Day 30, your household will have:

• A sleep schedule that holds, and bedrooms without screens in them
• A written contract everyone signed — including you
• The worst apps off the devices your child carries, with real limits on what remains
• An honest picture of what those screens are doing for your child, in their own words
• A plan for the ninety days after the thirty are over

What it will not do is cure your child in a month, and any book promising that is selling you something. What it gives you is a floor to stand on, and most families fighting this never get one.

Inside, you will learn:

• Why every reasonable argument you have made has bounced off a teenage brain
• How to tell ordinary heavy use from something that needs a professional
• Which apps to remove first — and why it is never the worst one
• What to do in the first ten minutes after you find something you did not want to find
• How to survive the week when most families quietly give up
• What backsliding looks like long before it becomes a collapse

Written for parents of children roughly ages 10 to 18. Where the answer genuinely differs between a ten-year-old and a seventeen-year-old, the book says so instead of leaving you to guess.

Fully revised and updated, with material on short-form video, AI chatbots, in-game spending, and what to do when screen use is hiding anxiety, depression, ADHD, or autism.

About this title

About the Author

Nathan Driskell is a therapist in the Houston, Texas area who specializes in treating Internet Addiction and High Functioning Autism. Nathan, a former gaming addict, has spent the past ten years in private practice treating people who are addicted to electronics and the Internet. Nathan works with clients and their families to learn how their addiction came to be, what they gain from it, and how to move on from their addiction. Nathan works with children, adolescents, and adults who have addictions to electronics and the Internet.

From the Back Cover

The time for Healing is Now!

Does your son spend countless hours playing video games to the point his grades have suffered? Is your daughter on Instagram, Snapchat, and other social media apps long into the night? Is your family falling apart due to the stress of managing electronics? If so, you are not alone, as many families experience these problems.

It is time to take a new approach to how you manage electronics within your home. This book is designed to help you not only manage electronics for your children but to bring the family back together.

For 30 days, you will complete a series of activities to help you take control of the electronics in your home while working to repair the damage to your family. You will learn more about your family, their electronics usage, and what your children gain from their electronics. You will learn how to create an electronics usage contract, how to lock down electronics, and how to combat negative thoughts while undergoing these changes. There is Hope! The time for change is now!

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1521552215
• ISBN 13: 9781521552216
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 241