Baby, Unplugged

A charming, meticulously researched, and illuminating look at how technology infiltratesevery aspect of raising children today, filled with helpful advice parents can use to best navigate the digital landscape, and ultimately learn to trust their own judgment.Theres an app or device fornearly every aspect of parenting today: monitoring your baby; entertaining or educating your toddler; connecting with other new parents for tips, tricks, and communityvirtually every aspect of daily life. But it isnt a parenting paradise; the truth is much more complicated. The mother of two young daughters, journalist Sophie Brickman wondered what living in a tech-saturated world was doing to her and her children. She turned to experts, academics, doctors, and innovators for advice and insight.Baby, Unpluggedbrings together Brickmans in-depth research with her own candid (sometimes hilarious) personal experience to help parents sort through the wide and often confusing tech offerings available today and to sort out whats helpful and whats not. Filled with relatable and entertaining stories as well as practical takeaways,Baby, Unpluggedis destined to become a touchstone for parents today, giving them the permission to forge their own path through the morass of technological options, to restore their faith in themselves, and to help them raise good, social, and engaged people in the modern world.