In Unplug Our Kids Maja Lunde illuminates all the negative effects of today’s enormous screen use, like declining reading skills, mental unease and lack of physical relationships with other people, and nature.

“A child who uses their phone for one hour a day will, with an average lifespan of 82 years, spend around 30,000 hours on their mobile screen. That equates to three and a half years. Or 15 years of work. Many children and adolescents use their phones for four hours or more each day. That’s 60 years of work.”

This usage affects all the important things they need to thrive: playing, sleeping, moving, reading, daydreaming, and not least, being with others. The only ones benefiting from it are the tech giants. But: What does not improve our lives and society can be removed or changed together. This book shows us how.

Unplug Our Kids relates to Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, but from a European mother’s perspective, and with a stronger critique of the tech industry’s part and responsibility.