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The Book Review

Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent Screens

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Pamela Druckerman discusses “The Art of Screen Time” and “Be the Parent, Please,” and Ben Austen talks about “High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing.”

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0:00.0

Is screen time for children all bad and how much is too much?

0:06.6

Pamela Druckerman will be here to talk about two new books, The Art of Screen Time and

0:11.4

Be the Parent Please.

0:13.6

Was Cabrini Green a Chicago's massive public housing project doomed to failure?

0:18.4

Ben Austin will join us to talk about his book, High Rises, Cabrini Green and the Fate

0:23.4

of American Public Housing.

0:25.4

Plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

0:28.6

This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.

0:30.4

I'm Pamela Paul.

0:32.0

Pamela Druckerman joins us now from Paris.

0:36.6

She is a contributing opinion writer for the Times, the author of Bringing Up Baby and

0:42.8

the forthcoming There Are No Grownups.

0:45.6

There are no grownups or there are no grownups.

0:47.8

I think I'll read it that way.

0:48.8

A midlife coming of age story.

0:51.2

Pamela, thanks for being here.

0:53.0

Thanks for having me.

0:54.0

So you reviewed two books this week in The Booker View.

0:57.7

The first one is The Art of Screen Time, How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and

1:03.3

Real Life by Anya Kamenets.

1:05.7

And then Be the Parent Please.

1:08.2

Stop banning Seasaws and start banning Snapchat.

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