Thank you to all 120 attendees at our Families Connected Speaker Series event, provided In partnership with Beach Cities Health District, HBCSD, RBUSD, and MBUSD.
For those who missed this event, or who would like more info on parenting in the digital age, on this page we offer you:
A link to purchase Dr. Uhls book from Pages Bookstore
A video of Dr. Uhls’s talk
Key take-aways - Families Connected Ambassadors’ perspectives
Event handouts
Online resources to help you parent in the digital age
Buy the book
Yalda T. Uhls, PhD is an award winning child psychological researcher and expert in how media affects children. Her book, an Amazon #1 New Release in Child Psychology, is Media Moms & Digital Dads: A Fact Not Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age. To learn more about Dr. Uhls and her book, visit her website: http://www.yaldatuhls.com/.
To order this book from Pages, a bookstore, please click HERE or on the image of Media Moms and Digital Dads.
View a presentation from Dr. Uhls
This video of Dr. Uhls presenting Media Moms and Digital Dads was filmed in Los Angeles as part of Talks at Google series.
Read key takeaways
“I’ll admit, I sometimes want to avoid parenting lectures because I fear I’ll leave reminded of all the things I should be doing but am not. I did not, however, feel that way leaving Yalda Uhls presentation!
Here are my top takeaways (I promise they won’t keep you up at night with parent anxiety):
Research shows there are cognitive benefits gained from playing video games! Parents like me who endured the Fortnite epidemic take heart. I can’t remember the specifics (I’m old. And tired.) but Dr. Uhls book probably explains it all, and I consider this news a win.”
