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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE CONNECTING. HOW TO RAISE SANE KIDS IN A CRAZY DIGITAL WORLD WITHOUT SWITCHING OFF
With the power of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother or Bringing Up Bébé , WHAT TO EXPECT maps out the fundamental divide among parents today
Alexandra Samuel and her husband work as digital strategists and marketers, and would gladly spend 95% of their waking hours in front of a keyboard. But as parents of an exceptionally gifted child, Peanut, who has a 99.9th percentile IQ and is drawn magnetically to any digital device, they've had to navigate between limiting and enabling his technology use to find a middle way as tech mentors.
Most books on kids and technology focus on when, why, and how to hit the off switch. In contrast, each chapter of WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE CONNECTING takes you through a different challenge faced by digital-age parents, and looks at how that challenge is handled by enablers, limiters, and especially mentors. Each chapter is brimming with specific stories and recommendations from the mentor families who are giving great thought to raising children in a digital world. WHAT TO EXPECT provides a balance of social commentary and parenting advice, wrapped inside a compelling narrative following Samuel's own struggles as a digital mentor, which she chronicles with a wry wit.
ALEXANDRA SAMUEL is a longstanding contributor to the Harvard Business Review and has published a series of social media ebook singles, Work Smarter with Social Media, with Harvard Business Review Press. Harvard recently released these books as a single collection that has made it to Amazon's top ten books on social media. She is a frequent media commentator on technology issues, regularly quoted in stories from Fast Company, Forbes, The Guardian, The Washington Post, NPR, and many other media outlets. She has written about the intersection between family life and technology for publications like the Wall Street Journal, Oprah.com, the Atlantic.com, and the Toronto Star. She is a member of the Wall Street Journal's Experts panel. Samuel is the former VP Social Media for customer intelligence software company Vision Critical. Before joining Vision Critical she launched the Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University, and founded one of the world's first social media agencies, Social Signal.
Most books on kids and technology focus on when, why, and how to hit the off switch. In contrast, each chapter of WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE CONNECTING takes you through a different challenge faced by digital-age parents, and looks at how that challenge is handled by enablers, limiters, and especially mentors. Each chapter is brimming with specific stories and recommendations from the mentor families who are giving great thought to raising children in a digital world. WHAT TO EXPECT provides a balance of social commentary and parenting advice, wrapped inside a compelling narrative following Samuel's own struggles as a digital mentor, which she chronicles with a wry wit.
ALEXANDRA SAMUEL is a longstanding contributor to the Harvard Business Review and has published a series of social media ebook singles, Work Smarter with Social Media, with Harvard Business Review Press. Harvard recently released these books as a single collection that has made it to Amazon's top ten books on social media. She is a frequent media commentator on technology issues, regularly quoted in stories from Fast Company, Forbes, The Guardian, The Washington Post, NPR, and many other media outlets. She has written about the intersection between family life and technology for publications like the Wall Street Journal, Oprah.com, the Atlantic.com, and the Toronto Star. She is a member of the Wall Street Journal's Experts panel. Samuel is the former VP Social Media for customer intelligence software company Vision Critical. Before joining Vision Critical she launched the Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University, and founded one of the world's first social media agencies, Social Signal.