Anya Kamenetz
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253 appearances
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first heard Feb 2018
last heard Feb 2018
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Screentime was an issue that I had so many conversations about and just realized that it was top of mind for most of the parents that I knew.
And yet there wasn't that one book that people had, you know, to say like, oh, you have to read this and this will help you figure it out the way there might be for sleep or food or other issues that parents are grappling with.
So I really set out to write that book.
I set out to write the guide that I wish I'd had that was, you know, reassuring and calm and based on the evidence, but also had a lot of firsthand on the ground detail about what parents are really doing.
Sure.
So I have a longstanding interest in education and technology.
I've written, this is my fourth book, and I've written about different aspects of education and particularly how it's evolved.
I also was a fast company staff writer for five years, and that's where I really kind of covered the cutting edge of innovation and all kinds of technology.
And so my passion is for the way that we learn and how the way we learn is changing over time.
And then, of course, I became a parent six years ago and got even more interested.
It got even more personal for me to think about the changing world that our kids are growing up in and how we as parents can kind of apply the values that don't change to try to do things better.
I mean, I think it just, it just intensifies how important it is for, you know, each child deserves the best and each child deserves to have
you know, their rights upheld and their differences respected.
And, you know, having a child, you know, two children myself that I would do absolutely anything for, it helped me understand how difficult it is when you look at something like education.
You know, it is a global effort and a global enterprise, but it's also very, very personal for everyone who's engaged in it.
And so trying to think about, you know, dilemmas in education from both of those sides, I think it's really enriched the way that I look at the issues.
Absolutely.
So literally, I was having lunch with my editor and I took out my phone to look at my Kindle app because my mission was to write a book that I myself would want to read and would want to own.
And screen time was an issue that I had so many conversations about and just realized that it was top of mind for most of the parents that I knew.
And yet there wasn't that one book that people had.
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