To help parents, teachers and therapists struggling with how to address child TV, videogame and internet addictions, Cris Rowan, pediatric occupational therapist offers the following:

Article - Ten steps to successfully unplug children from technology. This article is a 'must read' for anyone who is working with children who over use technology. Click here to learn more!

Workshops - Cris is coming to Toronto on December 5, 2008 to present the following two workshops for parents, health and education professionals:

A Cracked Foundation
How Virtual Parenting is Destroying our Children

Mixed Signals
Connecting to Technology is Disconnecting Child Development

These two half day workshops provide urgently needed research based information, tools and techniques to help disconnect children from technology. A Cracked Foundation and Mixed Signals offer foundation knowledge to prepare schools to immediately implement technology reduction programs, and instructs families in numerous ways how to re-connect with their children. Participants will learn about the impact of technology on child mental and physical development, family structure, and children's ability to learn. Videogame addictions, critical factors for child development, attachment theory, child diagnosis and medication mania, attention difficulties, sensory impairment and motor delays are but a few of the covered topics integral to working with 21st century 'techno' children. Click here to learn more and register!

Tools and Techniques - The TV and Videogame Reduction Module for Parents and Teachers was created for classroom or home implementation, and promotes child awareness, information and loads of tools and techniques to motivate children to reduce use of technology. Contains Discussion Topics, the Addiction Questionnaire, the Survivor Unplugged Challenge, the Zone'in Fact Sheet, the Ten Steps to Successfully Unplug Your Child from Technology, the Zone'in TV and Videogame Schedule and loads of alternate activities to using TV and videogames. Click here to purchase!