The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life

She's contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate, and O, the Oprah Magazine, and has won multiple awards for her reporting on education, technology, and innovation. About the AuthorAnya Kamenetz is the lead digital education correspondent for NPR. Previously she worked as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. She is the author of three books on education and technology, Generation Debt, DIY U, and The Test.

Surveying hundreds of fellow parents on their practices and ideas, and cutting through a thicket of inconclusive studies and overblown claims, she hones a simple message, a riff on Michael Pollan's well-known "food rules": Enjoy Screens. They are photographed with smartphones from the moment they're born, and begin interacting with screens at around four months old. Mostly with others.This brief but powerful dictum forms the backbone of a philosophy that will help parents survive the ubiquity of technology in their children's

Previously she worked as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. She is the author of three books on education and technology, Generation Debt, DIY U, and The Test. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. Anya Kamenetz is the lead digital education correspondent for NPR. . She's contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, New Y