How to Say No to Your Phone: An Empowering Guide for Young People

By Author / Illustrator

Brad Marshall, Lindsay Hassock, Lauriane Bohemier

Genre

Non Fiction

Age range(s)

Publisher

Magic Cat

ISBN

9781915569110

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

04-01-2024

Synopsis

An empowering and practical guide to help children unplug from their phones, from psychologists Brad Marshall and Lindsay Hassock.

Drawing on over 20 years of experience as psychologists, Brad Marshall and Lindsay Hassock share cutting-edge insights on how children can say 'no' to their phones. Young readers will discover the effects that their phone has on their brain and body. They'll learn how to create a relationship with their phone on their terms. They'll even establish simple, healthy screen time habits that stick.

This handbook for children ages 10+ features:
-Ten practical steps to help children unplug from their phones
-A toolkit at the end of each step providing accessible, practical techniques
-Advice from trusted authors, psychologists who have spent two decades working with children and offer a warm and conversational voice
-Calming full colour illustrations by Lauriane Bohemier
-Further resources at the back of the book

Practical, insightful and empowering, this is the first book on the market to help children build a healthy relationship with their phone.

Reviews

Chloe - Age 10

How to Say No to Your Phone is very interesting and helped me gain information about how I use my phone. The vibrant colours and pictures really helped me understand the book and keep going. There are quite a few tricky words but luckily there is a glossary at the back. It gave me tons of inspirational advice.

I like the part when it talks about the author themselves and why or how they chose the job they have today. Surprisingly, both authors had trouble with their relationship with their phones and you may not know it, but you might too.

Solomon - Age 11

I have rated How to Say No to Your Phone five stars because it is useful for everyone. Most people in our generation has a phone and most of them are always attached to their phone 24/7. This book has ten easy and simple steps to succeed on trying to decrease your phone's screen time or trying to not use your phone. This is a very good book for everyone who has a phone. This book also teaches you things like "dopamine" and "doomscrolling" This is a very good book for everyone who uses their phone too much. I love this book so much!

Ayobami Oredein - Age 11

I rated the book How to Say No to Your Phone five stars because loads of people around the world have a phone and most of them are attached to it 24/7. This book gives us important and helpful information like what is doomscrolling or what is dophimane. This is a very good guide for young people to get less attached to their phone and do things without technology.