We did it. Successful Kickstarter launches Screentime!

My name is Angelo and I am former cell exec turned Mindfulness Coach and Yoga Instructor, I've been teaching in prisons and jails in California for the past 5 years and transitioned to teaching Mindfulness to grade school kids in marginalized communities to help curb the school to prison pipeline. I left the cell phone industry after 12 years of helping build it.  I both witnessed and experienced early on what is very apparent today; Excessive cell phone use, namely social media engagement has negative effects on our brains. I am eternally grateful to all our supports on Kickstarter and beyond that helped make Screentime a reality!  

Why This Book Matters?

Too much screen time has been linked to  a range of health and social issues in kids. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, these include:

• Attention problems

• Childhood Obesity

• Eating Disorders

• School difficulties

• Sleeping disorders

Studies continue to link excessive screen time with a host of other negative traits including aggression, shortsightedness, anxiety/depression and a lack of social skills.

“Several  studies have documented that higher levels of screen time are  associated with less sleep, more attention problems, and lower academic  performance and involvement.”

 – Source: Journal of American Medical Association Pediatrics – JAMA.

Since there are no books that capture this narrative I decided to do something about it and write a children's book that depicts this occurrence in a kid friendly, science based book; encouraging both young and old to take a closer took at our own relationship with technology. The intention is to support children in learning better boundaries with their devices and to discover their own Mindfulness practice