SRMc

Great book, lousy digital narration.

Revisado: 08-18-19

With four kids, we found this book incredibly relevant. We've been concerned with some volatile behaviors after heavy use of gaming or social media by both our teens and pre-teens. Getting kids to cut back can be tough and we have the constant "comparison" to other parents' leniency which we find in talking to those parents isn't factual. This book provides validation and hard scholastic data to our concerns about the impact of heavy use of games, tablets, phones, etc. on children's brains as well as underscoring how much the tech industry is in the background pushing these on our kids as "healthy". It also provides some guidance and solutions on approaches to dealing with children as well as teens.

My gripe with the Audible version is with the narration. I have been through dozens of books on Audible, Although sometimes there was normal flow in the narration, I found the narrator's cadence and flow at times choppy and stiff, sounding monotone and almost robotic as if the spoken words had been pasted together by computer. Either the narrator did a lousy job or Audible thinks its okay to digitally fabricate parts of the narration. I found that almost insulting given the subject matter of the book. You might consider reading this one instead.

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