Gloria’s Books

PATTERNS OVER TIME: A Research Summary: Screen Time and Healthy Development:
by Gloria DeGaetano

2023 Creative Source Publishing

Patterns Over Time synthesizes over 200 studies (from the 1960s to the present day) on the impact of too much screen time on 15 aspects of child and adolescent development. Reading this book, parents and teachers can make choices for children and teens about technology with more ease and confidence, knowing their decisions align with best practices for healthy development. The amassed data and on-going trends give a clear and persistent message:

• To help children and teens reach their highest potential: Reduce Screen Time.
• To grow healthy bodies and curious minds: Reduce Screen Time.
• To give kids an advantage in school, sports, and artistic endeavors: Reduce Screen Time.
• To strengthen a budding self-identity: Reduce Screen Time.
• To cultivate wholesome peer interactions: Reduce Screen Time.
• To nourish reverence for the natural world and wise discernment about technology: Reduce Screen Time.

If you are looking for “back-up” for limiting screen time in your family, with the students you teach, or for the sake of your grandkids’ well-being, this book has you covered!

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Parent Well for a New World:
Your C.E.O. (Creative Energy Orchestrator) Guide by Gloria DeGaetano

Available Summer 2017

So, how do you create what you want for you and your family in our increasingly stressful, screen world? For many moms and dads today, conflict and anxiety lurk around every parenting corner. “My kids text from morning till night, we don’t talk anymore.” “If I don’t buy the latest video game, my son throws a fit.” “If the school demands my five year-old use an I-pad, how do I control screen use at home?” “Help, my children used to love to play outside, now all they do is play with their electronics.” And the list goes on.

My new book is not about getting rid of these problems. Rather it’s about creating what you want. (Then the problems take care of themselves. Honestly.) Creating is rewarding, energizing, and natural. I help you decide what’s most important to you, by exploring several basic principles. Once you have clarity about the principles, then we take a look at potential parenting practices. You decide which practices to put into motion as the C.E.O. of your family. And voila! You are on to creating, not only what you want for yourself and your children—you are also creating a new world—for all of us. And it’s simpler to do than you think.

Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill

2014 Harmony Books

At least 3 million U.S. kids are addicted to video games. Find out what to do about this growing epidemic. Also discover the thousands of research studies (coherently summarized for you) and their implications for your family. Learn the impact of media violence on your child’s self-identity and discover how to shift the negative trajectory—at any age.

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Left to Their Devices, What’s Left?

2012 WestBow Press

Use this book as a personal meditation. Share it with your book club or PTA. Show it to a relative whose child struggles with screen addiction. Give it to new parents to encourage wise future decisions.

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Parenting Well in a Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Human

2004 Personhood Press

Learn the six major parenting challenges in our media/digital age, along with The Vital Five™–your ticket to parenting success and your child’s admission into healthy well-being. With practical parenting strategies for real-world parents, I designed this book to provide brain-based ideas, realistically do-able amid family daily life. I wrote this book to bring more life to your life!

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