Anya Kamenetz > Quotes

“We have to be role models. We have to be curious. Above all, we have to pay attention and be part of the conversation while our kids are still listening to us.”
― Anya Kamenetz, The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life

“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral”
― Anya Kamenetz, The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life

“They are likely to have less educated parents who own fewer books and talk to them less from the time they are infants—a gap that’s been estimated at 30 million words by the time they start kindergarten.”
― Anya Kamenetz, The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don't Have to Be

“As parents, I believe it’s our job to enhance the good for our kids even as we try to mitigate the bad, and more than that, to remain open to learning what our children’s media interests have to teach us.”
― Anya Kamenetz, The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life