Dopamine Kids
Parenting advice around screens is woefully outdated. It hinges on psychology and neuroscience from 25 to 50 years ago. It doesn’t work and often makes our lives harder. Dopamine Kids offers you an easier and more effective approach.
With a 5-step protocol, you’ll learn how to retrain your children’s brain so they naturally seek out activities and foods that bring gratification and true joy. The healthy option becomes the default in your home.Â
*Find resources from the book, including Dream Charts, here.*
Order a CopyNo, It’s Not About Instant Gratification.
When Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD, decided to address her family’s dependency on screens and ultraprocessed foods, she found that recent neuroscience refuted nearly all the claims she’d read in the media about why we’re all so inclined to pick up our phones or raid the crackers in the pantry.
No, these modern inventions don’t give us instant gratification (and oodles of pleasure throughout the day). In fact, they do the opposite: they make us want more. They gives us little or no gratification.
This misconception makes our lives harder.
Once Michaeleen learned how our brain’s motivation system actually works, she could finally see how to fix her own broken relationships with her phone and foods. She developed a 5-step protocol and applied it to her whole family. Six months later, their lives transformed in wonderful ways.
They slept better. They worked better. They got along better. Their days filled up with more joy and pleasure, not less. Dopamine Kids explains how you can do it.
With the 5-step protocol, you’ll learn how to:
- Discover what’s most important to your family
- Create new habits you want for your child, permanently
- Fill your kids’ lives with activities that align with your values
Key insights from Dopamine Kids:
- Curbing screentime and ultraprocessed foods requires more fun, excitement and pleasure in your life.
- Willpower doesn’t work. Families need a more potent strategy.
- Confident, anxiety-free kids arise when we fulfill their needs as humans.
Throughout the book, Michaeleen explains how:
- To teach your children to love activities that make them feel good (and foods, too).
- To motivate your kids to play outside for hours voluntarily.
- Screens and ultraprocessed foods work inside your child’s brain.
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Coming soon in Spanish, French, Dutch and German.
