Early Childhood Media Mastery: A Complete Guide to Teaching Safe and Responsible Media Use

Do you want to use digital media to enhance your child's early development? Are you curious or concerned about how digital devices are impacting your child? Parents are bombarded by advice and "answers" to almost every major parenting issue from sleeping and eating to choosing a preschool, but most parents receive very little information about how to teach their children about digital devices and new media. Early Childhood Media Mastery fills this void with straight-forward, age-by-age, topic-by-topic essentials for raising a responsible "Generation Alpha" child. While there has been much talk about the digital native, today's youngest generation is embarking on a whole new level of integrated use as they begin life learning about the tangible and digital worlds at the same time. In fact, most children will be fully immersed in technology long before they can understand it. Unfortunately, immersion does not necessarily lend itself to true mastery. It will be up to you as a parent to teach your child to use technology in an intelligent and healthy way. This book will help you learn how to embrace technology at the right times to encourage and promote your child's development and early education.

Michelle Ellisor, LMFT, is the author of ＂Early Childhood Media Mastery: A Complete Guide to Teaching Smart & Responsible Media Use＂. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a passion for helping parents and families find a healthy way to function in an often frenzied modern world. In addition to her background in counseling and mental health, she has a bachelor’s degree in film production, which highlights her early interest in media and technology. She has given presentations on a number of parenting, technology and social media topics. She is also the creator of the Family TechKnowledge campaign, which shares information for families about the impact of modern media and entertainment.