THE TEENAGE GUIDE TO DIGITAL WELLBEING
The ultimate guide to digital wellbeing and living your best life – offline and on!
ABOUT THE BOOK
Packed with positive prompts, thought-provoking science, and hands-on activities to encourage healthy habits around screen use.
Digital wellbeing is all about finding the balance between the digital world and the real world – and making sure we use smartphones and other digital devices in a healthy way, while living fulfilling lives beyond the screen.
This guide helps tweens and teens do exactly that, inspiring them to set their devices aside (sometimes anyway!) and start living in the here and now.
This book is not about teenagers giving up their devices forever; it’s about being more mindful of how they use them, so they can live their best lives – on and off the screen.
WHAT’S INSIDE
Teenagers will discover how to:
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Develop healthy habits, identify priorities, and set achievable goals
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Know their own screen limits and deal with digital distractions
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Stay safe and savvy on the internet
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Focus on the positive and productive uses of smartphones (no more doom-scrolling!)
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Combat comparison culture on social media and quieten their inner critics
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Nurture friendships and family relationships offline and on
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Build resilience and self-confidence to live healthily and happily with their digital devices.
KIND WORDS
"Tanya Goodin's new book is informative, alarming, and galvanising.“
The Telegraph
"An insightful, informative and, most-importantly, enjoyable and easily-digested look at how we mis-use tech today and specifically how to recognise and break the bad habits many of us have developed. The tone is calm and compassionate while an appealing typographic design further humanises the topic. Both schools and workplaces would benefit from adopting and promoting the high-level of tech self-awareness and guiding principles of engagement set out here.“
Amazon 5* Review
"Engaging story-telling and practical solutions. I really enjoyed reading this book - each chapter has a problem and then some practical solutions. It is all well and good to say 'use social media less' but actually having a focused way to wean ourselves off it makes it feel possible. The style is easy to read and has given me pause for thought. We all need a copy of this book!
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Amazon 5* Review
"As well as being a great read, this book is a very timely wake-up call. Goodin shows us how we can make a conscious choice to prioritise real human relationships over pseudo digital ones.“
Amazon 5* Review
"A highly readable overview of the primary problems technology poses the average person. Goodin's book offers attainable and realistic ways to reduce technology use and the burdens it can place on us as individuals and our relationships. Never felt patronising either, which is important, because who wants to be patronised?"
5* Review Goodreads
"I flew through this book in an afternoon as so much of it resonated with me. From ‘nomophobia’ to ‘multi-screening’, the book identifies a host of unhelpful consequences of our digital world, and entertainingly illustrates them with real life examples. It goes on to give pithy and practical advice about how to deal with each problem, and has made me freshly evaluate my relationship with tech. Highly recommended.”
Amazon 5* Review
"Thought-provoking, real-life scenarios of the consequences of our sometimes tenuous relationship with technology - as well as a number of mechanisms for identifying and finding solutions for dependent behaviours."
Amazon 5* Review
"Highly readable book that gives us all pause for thought especially as our reliance on the digital world seems to be spiralling in the last 18 months."
Amazon 5* Review
"I really enjoyed this book. Goodin presented lots of facts along with personal stories that give an insight into why too much time online can be an issue. She has great advice that we could all apply to our tech usage."
5* Review Goodreads
"Tanya Goodin's new book is informative, alarming, and galvanising.“
The Telegraph
"An insightful, informative and, most-importantly, enjoyable and easily-digested look at how we mis-use tech today and specifically how to recognise and break the bad habits many of us have developed. The tone is calm and compassionate while an appealing typographic design further humanises the topic. Both schools and workplaces would benefit from adopting and promoting the high-level of tech self-awareness and guiding principles of engagement set out here.“
Amazon 5* Review
"Engaging story-telling and practical solutions. I really enjoyed reading this book - each chapter has a problem and then some practical solutions. It is all well and good to say 'use social media less' but actually having a focused way to wean ourselves off it makes it feel possible. The style is easy to read and has given me pause for thought. We all need a copy of this book! “
Amazon 5* Review
"As well as being a great read, this book is a very timely wake-up call. Goodin shows us how we can make a conscious choice to prioritise real human relationships over pseudo digital ones.“
Amazon 5* Review
"A highly readable overview of the primary problems technology poses the average person. Goodin's book offers attainable and realistic ways to reduce technology use and the burdens it can place on us as individuals and our relationships. Never felt patronising either, which is important, because who wants to be patronised?"
5* Review Goodreads
"I flew through this book in an afternoon as so much of it resonated with me. From ‘nomophobia’ to ‘multi-screening’, the book identifies a host of unhelpful consequences of our digital world, and entertainingly illustrates them with real life examples. It goes on to give pithy and practical advice about how to deal with each problem, and has made me freshly evaluate my relationship with tech. Highly recommended.”
Amazon 5* Review
"Thought-provoking, real-life scenarios of the consequences of our sometimes tenuous relationship with technology - as well as a number of mechanisms for identifying and finding solutions for dependent behaviours."
Amazon 5* Review
"Highly readable book that gives us all pause for thought especially as our reliance on the digital world seems to be spiralling in the last 18 months."
Amazon 5* Review
"I really enjoyed this book. Goodin presented lots of facts along with personal stories that give an insight into why too much time online can be an issue. She has great advice that we could all apply to our tech usage."
5* Review Goodreads
FIND THE BALANCE TO LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE
Teens will discover how to:
● Stay safe and savvy on the internet
● Develop healthy habits and deal with digital distractions
● Combat comparison culture and quieten their inner critics
● Nurture relationships and build self-confidence
“An informative and thought-provoking read that offers practical tools to navigate the complexities of our relationship with technology. Goodin’s expertise and compassionate approach make this book a valuable resource for anyone seeking to regain control over their digital lives“.
OTHER BOOKS
Tanya has written another three books on our relationship with technology: ‘Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life’ is a pocket-sized guide for all ages on switching off and enjoying a more balanced relationship with tech. ‘Stop Staring at Screens’ is a practical handbook for families to read together to find ways of living happily with screens at home. ‘My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open’ gives everyone the vocabulary to discuss the impacts of the digital world.
OFF: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life
“She presents simple ideas alongside practical suggestions for how to implement them – leaving you inspired and motivated by the end.”
Stop Staring at Screens!
“Perhaps the best compliment I can pay this is that as soon as I started reading this, my 13-year-old son started looking over my shoulder, and in short order said, “I want to read this as soon as you’re done. And I want to do this.”
“From ‘nomophobia’ to ‘multi-screening’, the book identifies a host of unhelpful consequences of our digital world, and entertainingly illustrates them with real life examples. It goes on to give pithy and practical advice about how to deal with each problem, and has made me freshly evaluate my relationship with tech. Highly recommended.”