Reset Your Child's Brain
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Increasing numbers of parents grapple with children who are acting out without obvious reason. Revved up and irritable, many of these children are diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar illness, autism, or other disorders but don’t respond well to treatment. They are then medicated, often with poor results and unwanted side effects. Based on emerging scientific research and extensive clinical experience, integrative child psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Dunckley has pioneered a four-week program to treat the frequent underlying cause, Electronic Screen Syndrome (ESS).
Dr. Dunckley has found that everyday use of interactive screen devices – such as computers, video games, smartphones, and tablets – can easily overstimulate a child’s nervous system, triggering a variety of stubborn symptoms. In contrast, she’s discovered that a strict, extended electronic fast single-handedly improves mood, focus, sleep, and behavior, regardless of the child’s diagnosis. It also reduces the need for medication and renders other treatments more effective.
Offered now in this book, this simple intervention can produce a life-changing shift in brain function and help your child get back on track – all without cost or medication. While no one in today’s connected world can completely shun electronic stimuli, Dr. Dunckley provides hope for parents who feel that their child has been misdiagnosed or inappropriately medicated, by presenting an alternative explanation for their child’s difficulties and a concrete plan for treating them.
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“This practical and easy-to-read guide is a much-needed wake-up call for this digital age. Buy Reset Your Child’s Brain for your family, your school, and your local library.”
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Let’s face it. Hearing that video games, texting, and the iPad might need to be banned from your child’s life does not fill one with glorious joy. Rather, for many, it creates an immediate urge to find a way either to discredit the information or to work around it. Sometimes when I tell parents what they need to do in order to turn things around, I sense that I am losing them … their eyes shift away, they squirm, and they look like they’re in the hot seat. This is not what they want to hear. It’s as though I’m telling them they need to live without electricity — that is how ingrained screens are in our lives. The inconvenience of what I’m proposing can seem overwhelming. Aside from dreading the inconvenience, though, discussing ESS and the Reset often produces other negative feelings. Some folks feel as though their parenting skills are being judged, or that their efforts or level of exhaustion are underappreciated. Other parents feel guilty or irresponsible for not setting healthier screen-time limits to begin with, or they become acutely aware that their own screen-time use is out of balance.
Let’s dig a little deeper into some other negative reactions parents experience upon hearing about the effects of electronics or the fast itself. These are feelings that are sometimes pushed outside of everyday awareness, and these same feelings, when left unacknowledged, can undermine your success. Conversely, getting in touch with where any resistance is coming from will help you work through it, and it will help you understand others’ resistance, too. These challenges are discussed throughout the book, but because these concerns can be preoccupying, I’d like to acknowledge them here. Below are some of the reactions parents commonly experience:
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