Screen-Smart Kids: Phones, games and social media, age by age, without guilt

A Practical, Guilt-Free Parents' Guide to Phones, Screens, Gaming and Social Media at Every Age, with Step-by-Step Parental Controls, a Family Media Agreement, Online Safety Plans and a 30-Day Family Reset

Tablet meltdowns. A tween begging for a phone because everyone has one. A teen scrolling at midnight. A quiet worry about what your kid sees online. You're not failing. You're parenting in the first generation where kids carry the whole internet in their pocket, and this is the manual nobody handed you.

Screen-Smart Kids turns guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the U.S. Surgeon General's 2023 social media advisory, NCMEC and the FBI into clear, practical steps. You'll get age-by-age guidance for 0-5, 6-9, 10-12 and teens, a first-phone readiness checklist, and step-by-step setup for iPhone Screen Time, Android Family Link, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, YouTube, Roblox, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat, with the teen protections these platforms offer as of 2026.

You'll also get a family media agreement you can copy word for word, gaming rules that end the daily battles, and a calm, protective plan for the hardest topics: grooming, financial sextortion, NCMEC's Take It Down tool, cyberbullying, and AI-generated images. There's a full chapter on sleep and getting phones out of bedrooms, plus an up-to-date look at the state laws restricting phones in schools.

Dozens of word-for-word scripts help you talk with toddlers, tweens, teens, co-parents and grandparents. A 30-day family reset puts it all into practice, one small step a day. Non-judgmental, realistic, and built for busy families.

What you get:

• Age-by-age guidance from 0-5 through the teen years
• First-phone readiness checklist and phone-type comparison
• Step-by-step parental controls for iPhone, Android, consoles and top apps
• A family media agreement template you can copy word for word
• Protective plan for grooming, sextortion and NCMEC's Take It Down
• Cyberbullying response steps and a school email template
• Dozens of talking scripts for kids, teens, co-parents and grandparents
• A 30-day family screen reset and official source list

Instant download: PDF ebook (6x9 in), readable on any phone, tablet or computer. Educational content; rules change, so check the official sources listed in the book.