Fearless Parent Radio – Tech Brain: The Vice Grip of Screens and Lights – 04.20.16

#98 — Tech Brain: The Vice Grip of Screens and Lights ** April 20, 2016

Guest // VIctoria Dunckley, MD ** Host //  Carla Atherton

Has

technology grabbed ahold of your kids’ brains, with the vice grip of

blue screens and blinking lights? It’s affecting our children socially.

It’s messing with brain function and development. It’s causing health

problems from fatigue to sleep problems. It’s a catalyst of emotional

upset, from tantrums and depression to addictions and even violence.

Gulp.

Do you have a daughter who’s not responding well to treatment? Do you suspect that you son is being medicated unnecessarily?

Could screentime be affecting your child’s grades, happiness, sense

of self, relationships, and overall quality of life? Could it be at the

root of an ADHD or Oppositional Defiance Disorder diagnosis?

Find out during this interview, and learn how you can join host Carla

Atherton and Dr. Dunckley for a screenfast challenge. Reverse these

tech side effects and develop new, healthy relationships with

technology.

Victoria L. Dunckley, MD is

an award-winning integrative child psychiatrist and a leading expert on

the disruptive effects of electronic media on brain health and

development. In the past ten years, her Reset Program has helped more

than five hundred children, teens, and young adults who failed to

respond to conventional treatment alone.She blogs for Psychology Today,

and has been a featured expert on the Today show, NBC Nightly News, and

the Investigation Discovery Channel. She is the author of a

groundbreaking new book, Reset

Your Child’s Brain: A Four Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades and

Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time.

Carla Atherton, MA, Director of the Lotus Health Project,

Writer and Editor, Workshop Instructor, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition

practitioner, Transformational Nutrition Coach, Yoga Instructor, Health

(R)evolutionary, and Children’s Health Advocate. Carla is a trained

Functional Diagnostic Nutrition practitioner and Transformational

Nutrition Coach, and is a creative and academic writer, lecturer,

workshop instructor, acreage-living, unschooling mom of three. She is

passionate about health and wellness, which, to her, involves all

aspects of health including the physical, mental, emotional, and

spiritual. Carla created the Lotus Health Project, the Children’s and Teen Health (R)evolution, and its biannual online Children’s and Teen Health Summit</a