Screenformation 2.0

Review of THE BOOK: “Considering recent news on the relationship of screentime to depression...this is the right book at the right time.”
— MENSA BULLETIN, 2024

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Before the screen age, people felt much more comfortable talking to strangers in public places. It was normal, natural, expected behavior throughout history. Comfortable conversation with strangers gradually became less natural as #screentime gradually isolated and insulated us.

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Reading and conversation both activate the region of the brain that critically evaluates information. The mind gets in gear to reliably assess arguments and concepts in a book or conversation. #Screentime disengages that region and opens the mind to suggestion in predictable ways

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#Screentime has decimated the pool of those who reach the top level of cognitive performance: fewer and fewer people attain the formal level at which they can think in terms of abstractions and develop their capacity for deductive logic and systematic planning.

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#Screentime-related deficiencies surface in college as “students no longer have the patience to read longer, denser, more difficult texts” and can no longer “read with a level of critical analysis sufficient to comprehend the complexity of thought and argument.”

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Preschoolers with a lot of #Screentime suffered disorganized executive functions and were underdeveloped in language and literacy skills. The deficiencies were shown both in behavioral testing and in MRI brain imaging.

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Childhood #Screentime causes brain shrinkage and severed brain connectivity—undermining their future ability to learn, plan, create, concentrate, make decisions, hold a job, form relationships, and regulate moods.

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Studies have shown that children learn words by interacting verbally with other humans—by watching and listening to parents in real conversations—and that #Screentime delays verbal development. T V cannot imitate it, replace it, or even supplement it. TV can only undermine it.

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#Screenfree childhood prepares us to work harder—putting in extra hours at night and on weekends for no extra pay or recognition, spending our own time and money to develop professionally. Delayed gratification, patience, and sacrifice. Love the struggle as much the achievement.

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A strict electronic fast improves mood, focus, sleep, and behavior regardless of a child’s diagnosis...this simple intervention can produce a life-changing shift in brain function...provides hope for parents who feel their child has been misdiagnosed or inappropriately medicated.

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Much child-#screentime damage goes unnoticed until too late: brain shrinkage, severed brain connectivity, diminished reasoning and creativity, failure in college, inability to hold a job, higher risk for aggressive/criminal behaviors, heart disease, diabetes, & more. #Screenfree.

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Child #screentime causes underdeveloped brains, atrophy, brain shrinkage, and severed brain connectivity. It results in children less able to learn, concentrate, form relationships, regulate moods, and causes many other deficiencies in brain activity.

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#Screenfree childhood is a predictor of higher testscores/grades, ability to hold a job, life satisfaction/success, social adjustment, better brain function, reasoning, creativity, logic, problem-solving, mental health, attention span, social skills, motor skills, physical health

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Many are under the impression that “there’s not a lot of research on the effects of #screentime” It’s because the scientific findings on screen damage are not widely communicated to the public. Screenformation 2.0 compiles the most reliable data in one place for convenient access

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By adulthood, that’s 45,000 hours the child should’ve been bonding with family and friends, developing mind and body, accumulating countless experiences and lessons learned; as they had for thousands of years. TV started the decimation, internet and smartphones finished it.

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Authentic self-worth arises from hard work, endurance, character, integrity, responsibility, achieving goals. It is long-term, authentic, solid, and stable. By applying discipline, a positive self-image follows naturally. We accomplish self-worth organically by our track record.

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Children don’t have any way of knowing their #screentime today will thwart their dreams for tomorrow. Children don’t know that today’s #screentime ruin’s tomorrow’s career goals and undermines their relationships. It is up to parents to protect their children against these risks.

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The common cliché, “you can be whatever you want to be,” has become a promise in a vacuum. The message implants the passive dream of automatic success: If I imagine it, it will just happen without discipline or effort. It becomes a false hope, destined for disappointment.

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Our society’s emphasis on positive self-esteem for its own sake conflicts with true self-worth. We can’t force-fit high self-esteem onto someone who hasn’t earned it, any more than we can force-fit claims of high quality onto poor craftsmanship. Easy #screentime kills self-esteem

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Studies and research have established that passive #Screentime atrophies the mind and severs brain connectivity. We know that screentime drains us of energy and undermines our reasoning, problem-solving, logic, empathy, creativity, mental and physical health.

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iGen stays home more than any previous generation—but spend even less time with family in the house. Smartphones hold millions of iGen captive in their rooms, in isolation. If this condition were forced on millions of teens, we would call it an atrocity of human rights violations