Power Down & Parent Up!: Cyber Bullying, Screen Dependence & Raising Tech-Healthy Children

Electronic Media Can Endanger As Well As Empower Your Kids

In this decade, our digital world has grown exponentially as has the degree of time both adults and children are spending on their screens. Not surprisingly, researchers are discovering a myriad of unhealthy behaviors associated with excessive screen time. In "Power Down & Parent Up", Kenley expands on her groundbreaking book Cyber Bullying No More, giving parents/guardians effective strategies to integrate into their lives and their children's. How can we navigate a tech-driven world and raise tech-healthy children?

• Tackle cyber bullying head-on by implementing a concise "Parent Up" approach with proven strategies for Protection, Intervention, and Prevention.
• "Power Down" on screen dependence and become fully informed about its growing health concerns and consequences.
• Learn Seven Proactive Practices such as goal setting and creating a family plan to reduce screen time.
• Discover Four Healthy Guidelines to our parenting toolbox such as learning how to communicate about the false nature of cyber worth and cultivate our children's real worth.

"Rather imply that families can return to some idealistic less complicated time without Facebook, sexting, social networks, and Twitter, and whatever else comes along, Kenley's booklet will help parents mitigate possible harm to their children as they integrate this technology hopefully into healthy lives and relationships."
--Ronald Mah, M.A. LMFT, author of Difficult Behavior in Early Childhood and The One Minute Temper Tantrum Solution

"Holli addresses children's readiness for technology as well as rules, contracts and education for parents to consider for their children as they introduce or allow entry of new technology into their lives. Cyber bullying and victimization are concerns addressed as well as internet resources for parents, with tools for protection, interventions and prevention--a must for parents in our technological world."
--Lani Stoner, Marriage and Family Therapist

Learn more at www.HolliKenley.com

Author: Holli Kenley
Publisher: Loving Healing Press
Published: 07/15/2017
Pages: 46
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.17lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.10d
ISBN: 9781615993505

About the Author
Kenley, Holli: - Holli Kenley is a California State Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a California Licensed Teacher. She holds a Masters Degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling. She first became interested in promoting the wellness of others in the early 1990s by volunteering time to lead support groups for women struggling with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD). This experience was the motivation behind her first book, The PMS Puzzle, as well as the impetus to return to graduate school to become a licensed therapist. Holli has worked in a variety of settings: a women's shelter and transi-tional housing, a counseling center, and in private practice. Counsel¬ing with adolescents, teens, young and older adults, Holli's areas of special training and interest include sexual trauma and abuse, betrayal, addiction, codependency, and cyber bullying. Holli is the author of numerous published articles and several books including Breaking Through Betrayal: And Recovering the Peace Within, 2nd Edition (2016), Another Way: A Novel (2015), Mountain Air: Relapsing and Finding The Way Back...One Breath at a Time (2013), and Cyber Bullying No More (2011). In the field of psychology, Holli is a nationally recognized author, speaker and workshop presenter. She has been five-time peer presenter at the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists' Annual State Conferences, speaking on Cyber Bullying, Betrayal, Relapse, and Sexual Abuse Recovery. Holli has appeared on over one hundred podcasts and is a frequent TV guest speaking on issues of wellness. Prior to and during her work as a therapist, Holli taught in public education for thirty years. Holli and her husband reside in the mountains of Arizona.Zelinger, Laurie: - Dr. Laurie Zelinger, Diplomate, is a Board Certified Psychologist with a specialty in School Psychology, and a Registered Play Therapist with forty years' experience. She is a licensed New York State psychologist who recently retired from a Long Island public school system and is now devoting her time exclusively to writing, consulting, and her busy private practice. Dr. Laurie's previous books include: Please Explain Anxiety to Me: Simple Biology and Solutions for Children and Parents, The "O MY" in TonsillectOMY & AdenoidectOMY: How to Prepare Your Child for Surgery (in its second edition), A Smart Girl's Guide to Liking Herself Even on the Bad Days for American Girl, and a chapter on selective mutism in the compendium, School Based Play Therapy (second edition). Dr. Zelinger is a fellow and elected officer in the nationally based American Academy of School Psychology and spent four years on the Executive Board of the New York Association of Play Therapy. As a media referral specialist for the American Psychological Association, she has contributed to nearly 200 venues regarding child development. Dr. Laurie and her psychologist husband, Dr. Fred, are both certified Red Cross Disaster Mental Health volunteers. You can learn more about Dr. Zelinger and her books at www.DrZelinger.com.