Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

by Nir Eyal

PART 6: HOW TO RAISE INDISTRACTABLE CHILDREN (AND WHY WE ALL NEED PSYCHOLOGICAL NUTRIENTS) • Chapter 29: Find the root causes of why children get distracted. Teach them the four-part indistractable model. • Chapter 30: Make sure children’s psychological needs are met. All people need to feel a sense of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. If kids don’t get their needs met in the real world, they look to fulfill them online. • Chapter 31: Teach children to timebox their schedule. Let them make time for activities they enjoy, including time online. • Chapter 32: Work with your children to remove unhelpful external triggers. Make sure they know how to turn off distracting triggers, and don’t become a distracting external trigger yourself. • Chapter 33: Help your kids make pacts and make sure they know managing distraction is their responsibility. Teach them that distraction is a solvable problem and that becoming indistractable is a lifelong skill.