Victoria Dunckley > Quotes

“gave her some background on how electronic screen devices irritate the brain and overstimulate the nervous system, especially in children.”
― Victoria Dunckley, Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

“Autism spectrum disorders: Screen-time reinforces brain pathways and tendencies specific to autism; it increases risk of regression; it limits or hinders development of language and social skills; it suppresses right brain and frontal lobe development; and it may therefore limit job, relationship, and independence potential as an adult.”
― Victoria Dunckley, Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

“But what if this “disorder” characterized by dysregulation is not some mysterious new plague, but environmentally related?”
― Victoria Dunckley, Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

“Electronic Screen Syndrome (ESS) — a constellation of symptoms from exposure to electronic screen media characterized by a state of hyperarousal (fight-or-flight) and mood dysregulation”
― Victoria Dunckley, Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

“much like management of diet or finances — screen-time management was an ongoing process.”
― Victoria Dunckley, Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

“in 2013, a controversial new diagnosis — Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder, or DMDD — debuted in the long-awaited fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). The presentation of a child with chronic irritability, poor focus, rages, meltdowns, and truly disruptive oppositional-defiant behavior has become disturbingly commonplace, and there is legitimate concern that these children are being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder”
― Victoria Dunckley, Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

“special incident reports” (which were reserved for severe behaviors like overt aggressive acts) for that house dropped by one-third.”
― Victoria Dunckley, Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

“Parents are given vague advice to “moderate” usage and are often led to believe that limiting screen-time only applies to video game play. They’re told to avoid violent games, but that educational games might give a child an “edge” over peers or even enhance his or her intelligence.”
― Victoria Dunckley, Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

“some of these children, gaming increased their overall tic frequency and severity, and with others the tics would ratchet up whenever the child actually played”
― Victoria Dunckley, Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

“Children aged two to six now spend two to four hours a day screen-bound — during a period in their lives when sufficient healthy play is critical to normal development.5 Computer training in early-years education — including in preschool — has become commonplace, despite lack of long-term data on learning and development.6 And according to a large-scale survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation in 2010, children ages eight to eighteen now spend an average of nearly seven and a half hours a day in front of a screen — a 20 percent increase from just five years earlier.7”
― Victoria Dunckley, Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

“ELECTRONIC SCREEN SYNDROME”
― Victoria Dunckley, Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time