Health and Education in a Digital World

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Childhood is being reshaped by screens and the stakes could not be higher. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Health and Education in a Digital World</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> sets out a clear human-first vision for raising and educating children in our connected age arguing for the conditions every child needs to thrive: love and belonging safety and stability health and wellbeing curiosity and learning friendship play and creativity guidance and voice hope and purpose.  </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Organised in four parts the book traces the journey from the early years where screens compete with attachment and language; to the classroom where the great digital experiment meets the lived reality of pupils and teachers and into adolescence with its pressures of social media gaming and identity. It culminates in a manifesto that restores childhood to the centre of our common life.  </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Grounded in research and global practitioner roundtables convened by IFIP readers hear directly from educators clinicians and safeguarding leads across contexts offering evidence empathy and practical strategies rather than panic.  </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A powerful framework; the Realms of Childhood brings texture to what children need now: embodiment and rhythm; relationality and recognition; presence and play; meaning and voice; safety and becoming. This lens clarifies why digital saturation destabilises attention belonging and learning and how families and schools can rebuild them.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>  </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The book does not call for nostalgia or a tech off switch. It calls for courage and policy: smartphone-free schools delaying social media and regulation that puts children before profit paired with compassionate guidance for parents and practical routines for daily life.  </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Written by Damian McBeath and best-selling author Daniel Sobel this is a clear hopeful blueprint for anyone who believes childhood should be protected and education should remain gloriously defiantly human.  </span></p><p></p>