{"product_id":"before-the-first-phone-teach-your-child-the-proper-use-of-smartphones","title":"Before the First Phone - How ordinary parenting raises a child who can handle screens","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe tablet goes off and the evening falls apart. Or your eleven-year-old tells you everyone else already has a phone, and you are not entirely sure that is wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost books about kids and screens start at the phone. This one starts years earlier. Almost everything that decides how a thirteen-year-old handles a phone is built long before, out of things that have nothing to do with phones: how a toddler learns to wait, how a five-year-old gets through the moment the show ends, how a nine-year-old learns that telling you about something upsetting will not get them in trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore the First Phone walks through those years, from the high chair to the first group chat. It is written for parents of children from 0 to 12, and for the parents who feel they have already left it too late. Chapter 9 is for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT IS INSIDE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn honest tour of the research: what it supports, what it does not, and where the experts are still arguing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne chapter for each stage: 0 to 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 9, and 9 to 12\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow apps and games are built to hold attention, in four ideas an eight-year-old can understand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe toolkit: a family agreement, routines, and the settings that are actually worth your evening\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen it has already gone wrong: how to change course without starting a war\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwelve sentences that work, each with a shorter version for when it escalates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen to look for help, and who to talk to\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree printable pages: a family media agreement, a one-page guide to what matters at each age, and a guide to the first-phone conversation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT YOU ACTUALLY SAY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost advice tells you what to do and leaves the hardest part to you: the words. This book gives you the actual sentences for the moments that keep going badly. For example, when she says everyone has one:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I believe you that it feels like everyone. That part is real and I am not going to argue with you about it. Let us talk about what you are actually missing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT THIS BOOK IS NOT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is not medical advice, and it does not promise to prevent anything. It does not tell you screens are poison, and it does not tell you they are fine. Where the evidence is thin, it says so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE BOOK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNora Ellis is a pen name. The text was written with AI assistance. Where it draws on published guidance, from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization among others, it names the source so you can read the original. If you want to check it before you trust it, read chapter 2 first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFORMAT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePDF, instant download after purchase. Reads on phone, tablet, or computer, and the printable pages print at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublished by Small Moments Press.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Moments","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58821296521560,"sku":null,"price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/1291\/2984\/files\/CoverTablet.jpg?v=1792245811","url":"https:\/\/smallmoments.store\/products\/before-the-first-phone-teach-your-child-the-proper-use-of-smartphones","provider":"Small Moments","version":"1.0","type":"link"}