{"product_id":"the-winter-of-our-disconnect-how-three-totally-wired-teenagers-and-a-mother-who-slept-with-her-iphone-pulled-the-plug-on-their-technology-and-liv-9781585428557","title":"The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone) Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Liv","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually communicate more. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull the plug on her family's entire armory of electronic weaponry for six months-from the itsy-bitsiest iPod Shuffle to her son's seriously souped-up gaming PC-her three kids didn't blink an eye. Says Maushart: \"Looking back, I can understand why. They didn't hear me.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For any parent who's ever IM-ed their child to the dinner table, this account of one family's self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you LOLing with recognition. But it will also make you think. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Winter of Our Disconnect\u003c\/i\u003e challenges readers to examine the toll that technology is taking on their own family connections, and to create a media ecology that instead encourages kids-and parents-to thrive. Indeed, as a self-confessed single mom who \"slept with her iPhone,\" Maushart knew her family's exile from Cyburbia wasn't going to be any easier for her than for her three teenagers, ages fourteen, fifteen, and eighteen. Yet they all soon discovered that the rewards of becoming \"unplugged\" were more rich and varied than any cyber reality could ever be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tarcherperigee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781585428557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.56w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/18\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2010 pg. 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/31\/2011 pg. 49\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Susan Maushart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44087218471093,"sku":"9781585428557","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6c5057ad-7574-4142-ac86-0271b4b537c5.jpg?v=1714456148","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-winter-of-our-disconnect-how-three-totally-wired-teenagers-and-a-mother-who-slept-with-her-iphone-pulled-the-plug-on-their-technology-and-liv-9781585428557","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}