The Screen-Smart Parent: Practical Strategies to Set Limits and Connect Offline

· Dunn Jewelyn
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The Screen-Smart Parent is a detailed, practical guide to The Complete Screen Time Management Guide for Parents for readers who want a clear path from understanding the topic to using it confidently in real situations. The book is designed as a structured learning companion rather than a shallow overview: it introduces the core ideas, explains why they matter, then develops them through realistic examples, guided practice, scenario based explanations, and common mistakes to avoid. Readers are taken step by step from foundational concepts into everyday applications, with each chapter building on the previous one so the material feels progressive, usable, and easy to revisit. The main areas of focus include Diagnosing Your Family's Screen Situation, What Science Says About Kids and Screens, The 3C Framework for Healthy Limits, Screen Guidelines from Toddlers to Teens, Building Your Family Media Plan, Ending the Screen Time Battles, Screens in School: Homework and Virtual Learning, The Parent's Digital Habit Audit, Creating Screen-Free Home Zones, The 7-Day Digital Discovery Reset, giving the book a concrete learning arc that moves from orientation and confidence-building to applied communication, problem solving, and independent practice. The writing style is direct, supportive, and accessible, making the book suitable for self-study, classroom reinforcement, professional development, or personal improvement. It emphasizes practical understanding over abstract theory, so readers can immediately connect the lessons to conversations, decisions, habits, and challenges they are likely to face outside the page. By the end of the book, readers should have not only a stronger grasp of the subject, but also a collection of repeatable strategies, useful language patterns, mental models, and practical routines they can continue applying after they finish reading.
The Screen-Smart Parent is a detailed, practical guide to The Complete Screen Time Management Guide for Parents for readers who want a clear path from understanding the topic to using it confidently in real situations. The book is designed as a structured learning companion rather than a shallow ...

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About the author

Dunn Jewelyn is a child development researcher, certified parenting educator, and mother of three children born between 2012 and 2018, which means she has been navigating the screen time question in real time since the dawn of the iPad generation. She holds a Master's degree in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where her graduate research focused on the impact of digital media on parent-child attachment and early childhood development.


For over a decade, Dunn has worked with families through her private coaching practice, speaking engagements at schools and parenting conferences, and her popular weekly newsletter, The Analog Hour, which reaches more than forty thousand subscribers with practical, research-backed advice for raising children in the digital age. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Parents Magazine, and on NPR's Life Kit, where she is a regular contributor on the topic of children and technology.


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Dunn Jewelyn is a child development researcher, certified parenting educator, and mother of three children born between 2012 and 2018, which means she has been navigating the screen time question in real time since the dawn of the iPad generation. She holds a Master's degree in Human Development ...

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