Baby, Unplugged: One Mother’s Search for Balance, Reason, and Sanity in the Digital Age

Acharming, meticulously researched, and illuminating look at how technologyinfiltrates every aspect of raising children today, filled with helpful adviceparents can use to best navigate the digital landscape, and ultimately learn totrust their own judgment.There’san app or device for nearly every aspect of parenting today:monitoring your baby; entertaining or educating your toddler; connecting withother new parents for tips, tricks, and community—virtually every aspect ofdaily life. But it isn’t a parenting paradise; the truth is much morecomplicated. Themother of two young daughters, journalist Sophie Brickman wondered whatliving in a tech-saturated world was doing to her and her children. She turnedto experts, academics, doctors, and innovators for advice and insight. Baby,Unplugged brings together Brickman’s in-depth research with her owncandid (sometimes hilarious) personal experience to help parents sort throughthe wide and often confusing tech offerings available today and to sort outwhat’s helpful and what’s not.Filledwith relatable and entertaining stories as well as practical takeaways, Baby,Unplugged is destined to become a touchstone for parents today, givingthem the permission to forge their own path through the morass of technologicaloptions, to restore their faith in themselves, and to help them raise good,social, and engaged people in the modern world.  Read more