Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers Quotes

“In April 2014, a five-minute video by Gary Turk titled “Look Up” was posted on YouTube.”
― Lucy Jo Palladino, Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Balancing Child's Use of Technology

“A Columbia University study identified fifteen hundred children who had been assessed and diagnosed with ADHD. Within two years, over 50 percent of the children had lost their diagnosis. In other words, the severity of their symptoms no longer met the criteria for this disorder.”
― Lucy Jo Palladino, Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Balancing Child's Use of Technology

“Neuroscientists have a saying: “As the neuron fires, the brain rewires.” It means that when you perform a behavior repeatedly, over time, your brain actually changes itself structurally to support that habit. “Plasticity,” as it’s called, will occur in support of any habit—good or bad.”
― Lucy Jo Palladino, Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Balancing Child's Use of Technology

“we can use self-observation to keep cognitive dissonance in check. To some degree, we can compensate for it by: (1) knowing it exists; (2) knowing what our bias is likely to be; and (3) applying metacognition—the “What am I not thinking about?” question. Be as detached as you can be, as if you were asked to debate both sides of the issue.”
― Lucy Jo Palladino, Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Balancing Child's Use of Technology

“Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman tells us that true happiness is a balance of feeling happy moment-by-moment and feeling happy when you think about your life, which is called “life satisfaction.”
― Lucy Jo Palladino, Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Balancing Child's Use of Technology