Power On: Managing Screen Time to Benefit the Whole Family

Ash Brandin, known online as The Gamer Educator, offers parents a practical, judgment-free approach to screens and video games in this 2025 guide. Rather than treating technology as the enemy, Brandin explains how games and apps are designed and why children find them so absorbing. Brandin offers frameworks for setting limits, keeping children safe online and handling conflicts over devices, with the aim of using screen time to strengthen family relationships.

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Ryan Holiday: “I also put together some parenting books to read over spring break, including Outdoor Kids in an Inside World, How To Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes, Range, The Gift of Failure, Power On, and Good Inside.”