Have you ever handed your child a phone just to buy five quiet minutes and then wondered—what is this habit really costing us?
Digital Parenting Beyond Screen Time invites you into the living rooms of four ordinary families who find themselves caught in the same dilemma. Grace and little Tyler rely on a tablet to soothe every meltdown. Julia and Mark watch their sons slip behind glowing screens instead of racing their bikes. Lucy and Andrew discover too late that their brilliant gamer, Alex, is using the online world to hide crushing anxiety. And Veronica, determined to film the perfect life for social media, overlooks the daughter who feels invisible outside the camera’s frame.

Page by page you’ll walk beside them: tense doctor visits, late-night arguments whispered outside bedroom doors, the first shaky steps toward therapy, even the bittersweet day a reluctant teenager checks into a recovery program. Nothing here is preachy or theoretical; each chapter feels like eavesdropping on a conversation you’ve already had in your own kitchen.

Yet this isn’t a story about screens—it’s a story about what happens after the screen goes dark. Small, almost accidental changes turn into family movie nights where nobody reaches for a device; backyard chess tournaments that replace endless gaming sessions; photographs taken not for likes but for sheer joy. The victories are modest—an extra hour of sleep, a real laugh at the dinner table—but they add up to something enormous: kids who remember how to look their parents in the eye, and parents who finally trust themselves again.

By the final page—set four years later—you’ll see Ferrara’s quiet streets, unchanged, while the families who walk them are transformed. Their journeys won’t hand you a one-size-fits-all plan, but they will offer a reassuring truth: it’s never too late to pull your loved ones back from the glow and into the light of ordinary, imperfect, wonderful life.

Open this book for the fiction; keep turning the pages for the hope that flickers in every home—even yours.