10 Tips to Help Your Kid (and You) Break Up with Screens

I first discovered Catherine Price because a friend told me that I needed to have more fun. He recommended that I watch a TED talk titled Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life. It is extraordinary, and it fits so well with the themes of The Anxious Generation and Let Grow. True fun happens, says Catherine, when we have three things at once: playfulness, connection, and flow. (Please join 5 million other people and watch the talk.)

A few months later, I happened to attend the TED conference where Catherine was offering a workshop on how to have more fun. I signed up for it and loved it so much that I altered the Flourishing course that I teach at NYU-Stern to devote a whole week to play and beauty, in which we use some of Catherine’s workshop materials. 

Two of Catherine’s books happen to be about the two halves of the story in The Anxious Generation: one is on the problem of phone-based life, the other on the joys of a fun-based life: 

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