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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Reclaiming Childhood: How the Digital World Stole Play, Sleep, & Focus & How Families, Schools, & Cities Can Undo It

Reclaiming Childhood: How the Digital World Stole Play, Sleep, & Focus & How Families, Schools, & Cities Can Undo It

Chow, Shadab

Paperback

Self-Help

ISBN13: 9798273203792
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 6 2025
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Reclaiming Childhood is a clear-eyed, hopeful field manual for parents, educators, and city builders who want to bring back the conditions kids need most-play, sleep, and focused attention-in a world tuned to distract them.

For a decade, screens slipped into every corner of the day while public spaces emptied out. The result wasn't just more media-it was a quiet shift from a place-based childhood to a phone-based childhood. Attention splintered, sleep shrank, friendships moved to public stages, and homes, schools, and streets stopped competing with the feed. This book names what changed and shows how ordinary people are fixing it-without shame, panic, or nostalgia.

Drawing on research and real-world pilots, Reclaiming Childhood focuses on systems, not scolding. The core idea is simple: rails beat willpower. When you change the default-where phones live, how classrooms start, when streets belong to kids-behavior changes by design.

Inside, you'll find:

  • Practical fixes for attention, sleep, and friendship that survive busy weeks (charging baskets, phone lockers, small-circle hangs, green time).
  • School policies that work: bell-to-bell attention without hallway buzz, restorative scripts, later starts where possible.
  • Play that builds courage: how to re-introduce good risk and unstructured time-safely and affordably.
  • Social media norms that move teens from public stages to private rooms and stronger circles.
  • An equity-first lens: solutions designed to work in phone-only homes, crowded housing, and transport deserts.
  • A 100-Day Reset for homes, classrooms, and blocks-make change boringly consistent so it lasts.
Who this book is for: families who want calmer evenings; teachers and principals who need attention to return; librarians and city staff who can turn quiet rooms and streets into commons again; designers and founders ready to ship healthier defaults.

We're not rewinding the clock. We're remembering how childhood grows-and rebuilding the places that let it happen. Start small. Make it boring. Keep going. The street will get loud again.

Includes checklists, sample agreements, pilot playbooks, and a printable One Page of Promises for the fridge.

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