Description:
In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan describes how technology and social media have caused teenagers and young adults to feel so socially awkward today. When it comes to creating close connections, girls have evolved from being scuba divers to jet skiers.
Good resources on this topic:
Look for Dr. Jordan’s new book: Keeping Your Family Grounded When You’re Flying By the Seat of Your Pants, revised and updated edition with an invaluable chapter on technologies and social media and readiness signs for both
Social Media and Technologies Books:
1) Turkle, Sherry. Alone Together
2) Turkle, Sherry. Reclaiming Conversation
3) Powers, William. Hamlet’s Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
4) Boyd, Danah. It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
5) McGonigal, Kelly. The Willpower Instinct
6) Siegel, Daniel. Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
7) Haidt, Jonathon. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
2 previous interviews in Raising Daughters of authors on this topic:
Gabriela Nguyen gabriela@appstinent.org Appstinent app: www.appstinent.org
Katherine Johnson Martinko Author of “Childhood Unplugged: How to Get Your Kid Off Screens and Find Balance”; website the analog family knmartinko@gmail.com Substack, After Babel