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Richard Freed

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Richard Freed, PhD, is a child and adolescent psychologist, author, and his insights have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets. He is a leading expert on how our kids’ increasingly screen-focused lives affect their physical and mental health as well as academic success.

Freed has devoted his career to revealing how Silicon Valley is using psychology—a discipline that we associate with healing—as a weapon against kids in order to pull them online and keep them there. This is achieved by consumer tech corporations joining forces with world-leading psychology experts to create the virtually unknown science of persuasive design used in social media, video games, and online video. Freed is determined ...more

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Dear Dr. Freed, I re-use one of your quotes from the Atlantic article "Do Smartphones Have a Place in the Classroom?" and mention the title of your book in my forthcoming young adult book, Thinking Critically: Cell Phones from Referencepoint Press. If you would like to see a PDF of the press proof of the book, let me know. Bradley Steffens

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Nice to hear from you, and thanks for mentioning my work. Can I ask the direction/message of your book? Thanks, Richard
You can contact me via…moreBradley,

Nice to hear from you, and thanks for mentioning my work. Can I ask the direction/message of your book? Thanks, Richard
You can contact me via email at RichardNFreed@gmail.com

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Richard Freed For me, not being able to write about something often means I don't understand the subject enough, or I haven't thought it through. So, I'm often help…moreFor me, not being able to write about something often means I don't understand the subject enough, or I haven't thought it through. So, I'm often helped by delving into the subject matter and starting to outline my ideas. Pretty soon, I'm hopefully inspired to write. As I write about it here, overcoming writer's block sounds relatively pain free, but in truth it's often a gut-wrenching experience. (less)

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	Wired Child: Reclaiming Childhood in a Digital Age 4.01 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Better Than Real Life: The Secret Science Addicting Kids to Screens—and How to Save Childhood 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Richard Freed's Blog: Reclaiming Childhood in a Digital Age

What is Good Parenting in the Digital Age?

"I can't limit her phone... It's her own private world," a mother told me about her 14-year-old daughter. This teen girl, who I was working with in my practice as a child and adolescent psychologist, spent her life glued to her phone in her room. Cut off from her parents, she was depressed and failing her classes. Still, the mom insisted, "I don't have the right to limit her phone."

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Published on December 23, 2015 19:12 • Tags: authoritative-parenting, parenting-in-the-digital-age, smartphones, steve-jobs, technology

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Richard Freed made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — updating my book page topic " Goodreads, Thank you in advance for your help. On my author profile, my first book, "Wired Child: Reclaiming Childhood in a Digital Age" is properly li ...more "
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