Jenifer Joy Madden
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Jenifer Joy Madden

Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development
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As a certified digital wellness educator and reporter, I help you and your family achieve a healthy, active, durable lifestyle in harmony with phones, tablets, and other tech tools through maximum use of intuition, compassion, curiosity and your many other human-only superpowers (attributes your "smart" devices do not have). Durable Human books have vital, hopeful information for anyone struggling with digital overuse or addiction, whether toddler, teen, or mature adult. How to Be a Durable Human has practical low-cost tips, tricks and advice so you and your family are "built to last" in body, mind, and spirit as you use digital tools for your own benefit. Guidance includes: How to thoughtfully and gradually introduce kids to the digital world Why being in nature is so good for mental health Strategies for valuing IRL unrecorded experiences (so kids put screens away while having dinner with Grandpa) Techniques so you and your family: -Learn the 21st century skill of being able to temporarily unhand phones and other digital devices -Protect vision and hearing while using screens and ear buds -Get unplugged "alone time" to think and digest information consumed throughout the day -Achieve solid, uninterrupted sleep The colorful, breezy Durable Human Manifesto inspires all people, but especially parents, on their durable quest. Discover the concept of "The Wild Human"– that all human babies arrive unplugged and fully equipped to freely explore the world and build dense brain interconnections through using all their onboard senses (not just those needed to swipe a hand across a screen). Wild humanhood should be cherished, protected and respected as the only time in life humans can spend full time getting to know their own operating systems (bodies and minds). This parenting philosophy embraces the fact that, only after babies' self-knowledge is solid, should they be gradually and thoughtfully introduced to the digital world. In other words, if you want your baby to be speaking, socializing, and having a best-developed brain, follow the World Health Organization's and wait until after age 2 before allowing digital device usage, and only an hour a day after that. The Manifesto Audible version tickles your senses with sound effects including a growling lion, a popping cork, and giggling toddlers. I narrate and my son plays the theme music on his guitar!
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