The Savvy Cyber Kids at Home: Adventures Beyond the Screen - Paperback

by Taylor Southerland (Illustrator), Ben Halpert (Author)

All too often we see infants, toddlers, and young children unable to pull themselves away from technology. Whether at a restaurant, a park, the beach, the pool, or at a play date, young children today are mesmerized by the glowing screen of the latest connected technological gadget. If you have growing concerns about increasingly competing with technology to gain your child's attention, have no fear. The Savvy Cyber Kids are here! In the third installment of The Savvy Cyber Kids at Home book series, CyberThunder (Tony) and CyberPrincess (Emma) learn the benefits of thirty minutes of screen time. Once their thirty minutes of screen time are up and after brainstorming alternative indoor and outdoor activities, Tony and Emma discover other meaningful ways to have fun. With colorful illustrations, this charming story shares the value of enjoying life beyond the glowing screen. The Savvy Cyber Kids help parents and educators teach children of the twenty-first century to embrace a lifestyle that encourages exposure to technology in moderation.

Author Biography

Ben is an award-winning author of several books for wildly divergent audiences. The Savvy Cyber Kids At Home: The Family Gets A Computer (October, 2010) is a picture book which teaches the concepts online safety and privacy to preschool age children. The Savvy Cyber Kids At Home: The Defeat of the Cyber Bully (October, 2011) teaches our children how to appropriately respond to a cyber bully before they start playing in the virtual world. For those in the business field, Ben has published Auditing Cloud Computing: A Security and Privacy Guide (July 2011) through John Wiley & Sons. Seeing a void in the conversation about online safety for children before they begin K-12, Ben created a nonprofit to represent those who cannot speak for themselves: infants, toddlers and preschool children. Savvy Cyber Kids, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is now working with the National Cyber Security Alliance and other organizations towards filling the gap.