We did it. Successful Kickstarter launches Screentime!
My name is Angelo and I am former cell exec turned Mindfulness Coach and Yoga Instructor, I've been teaching in prisons and jails in California for the past 5 years and transitioned to teaching Mindfulness to grade school kids in marginalized communities to help curb the school to prison pipeline. I left the cell phone industry after 12 years of helping build it. I both witnessed and experienced early on what is very apparent today; Excessive cell phone use, namely social media engagement has negative effects on our brains. I am eternally grateful to all our supports on Kickstarter and beyond that helped make Screentime a reality!
Why This Book Matters?
Too much screen time has been linked to a range of health and social issues in kids. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, these include:
Attention problems
Childhood Obesity
Eating Disorders
School difficulties
Sleeping disorders
Studies continue to link excessive screen time with a host of other negative traits including aggression, shortsightedness, anxiety/depression and a lack of social skills.
“Several studies have documented that higher levels of screen time are associated with less sleep, more attention problems, and lower academic performance and involvement.”
– Source: Journal of American Medical Association Pediatrics – JAMA.
Since there are no books that capture this narrative I decided to do something about it and write a children's book that depicts this occurrence in a kid friendly, science based book; encouraging both young and old to take a closer took at our own relationship with technology. The intention is to support children in learning better boundaries with their devices and to discover their own Mindfulness practice
