Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance
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Review : From addiction expert Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, a startling argument that technology has profoundly affected the brains of children―and not for the better. We’ve all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' houses―and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces―the Glow Kids―are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence or fad like some sort of digital hula-hoop? Some say that glowing screens might even be good for kids―a form of interactive educational tool. Don’t believe it. In Glow Kids , Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology―more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity―has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain’s pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression, increased aggression, and even psychosis. Most shocking of all, recent brain imaging studies conclusively show that excessive screen exposure can neurologically damage a young person’s developing brain in the same way that cocaine addiction can. Kardaras will dive into the sociological, psychological, cultural, and economic factors involved in the global tech epidemic with one major goal: to explore the effect all of our wonderful shiny new technology is having on kids. Glow Kids also includes an opt-out letter and a "quiz" for parents in the back of the book. Read more
Review : As a researcher and writer I found this book packed full of valuable information pertaining to digital addiction, particularly related to gaming addiction. It can be a hard read in places as the stories presented are quite tragic and heartbreaking but it is so vital that we as concerned citizens, family members, educators, etc, take a hard close look at our relationship with technology, esp. in re. to what our children are viewing and engaging in. My one criticism is that the author in an obvious attempt to appear neutral continually attests that he is not against gaming per se, but simply allowing children exposure to violent addictive gaming at too young an age. However at the same time he relates stories of adults whose lives have also been destroyed by gaming even when started at a mature age and while he explains that the games in question are designed on purpose by software developers with the intent to maximize addictive properties. Also he described one teenaged boy who had gotten pulled into the world of 'hardcore conspiracies' including 9-11 Truth groups and the like, describing the groups as dangerous and illegitimate. I do not know what particular groups he was referencing as he did not give specific examples but there are legitimate researchers presenting important information to help us get to the truth on a wide variety of topics, including the 9-11 attacks, among other things and to dismiss these researchers in one fell swoop as simply fanatical dispellers of disinformation labeled as 'conspiracy theorists' is to put himself then in the same category if he were to be fair. It is possible however that the information this particular boy had stumbled upon was too much for him to handle at his vulnerable age and therefore potentially not appropriate in that case, but I take issue with how he presents researchers into alternative viewpoints and histories. I did appreciate that the author made mention of the harmful effects of EMF exposures inherent to wireless devices used for internet searching and gaming. Not many authors are brave enough to 'go there' as its among the more heavily censored topics today due to the damaging effect this information has on the megalithic wireless and tech industries. Overall I think this book is very important and deserving of attention in spite of some of my own reservations as a fellow author and researcher.
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