Ana Homayoun - Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World

Ana Homayoun has written the very book Ive yearned for, a must-read for teachers and parents. I have been recommending Anas work for years, but Social Media Wellness is her best yeta thorough, well-researched, and eloquent resource for parents and teachers seeking guidance about how to help children navigate the treacherous, ever-changing waters of social media and the digital world.

Jessica Lahey, Author
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
Lyme, NH

This is the book Ive been waiting for. Ana Homayoun gives concrete strategies for parents to talk with their teens without using judgment and fear as tools. This is a guidebook you can pick up at anytime, and which your teen can read, too. Ill be recommending it to everyone I know.

Rachel Simmons, Author
The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence
New York, NY

This is the essential guide to navigating the ephemeral and transactional communications woven into the language of social media online and IRL. I relished every page of this book. It is jam-packed with sound and seasoned self-management and executive-functioning tips and systems. The research and artfully reconstructed narratives, tools, ideas, and reflective questions feed the systematic and practical approaches the author shares to empower students, parents, and educators alike. I cant wait to add this to my professional library and share it with all of my teachers!!!

Lisa Johnson, M.Ed, Author of Cultivating Communication and the Classroom and High School Educational Technologist
K-12 1:1 iPad School District
Austin, TX

I wish every parent, teacher, teen, and tween knew Ana Homayoun as I do. As a journalist, shes long been my go-to source for advice on social media dilemmas affecting families because she is smart, wise, andabove allempathetic. Im so glad to see Social Media Wellness is now available to everyone. Buy it. Like it. Share it.

Steven Petrow, Digital Life Columnist
USA Today
Chapel Hill, NC

Ana Homayoun demonstrates how social media and our digital lives have reoriented relationships and how we think. In her book she offers vital tools and strategies for this revolutionwhether youre a teacher, parent, or student. I found myself challenged from each of these viewpoints!

Homa Tavangar, Author and Global Education Adviser
Growingupglobal.net
Villanova, PA

Keeping up with tweens and teens on social media often seems like a dizzying task that leaves us, the adults, lost and confusedtoo often giving up. Social Media Wellness brings great clarity to the matter, offering actionable advice for parents and schools. In her typical style, Homayoun is realistic, pragmatic, and refreshingly straightforward. She gets our attention without using scare tactics and then gives us, parents and educators, the tools to most effectively help children find wellness in the social media age.

Andrew Davis, Head of School
Mt. Tamalpais School
Marin, CA

In our selfie society, teens and tweens encounter constant temptations and threats to their social, emotional, physical, and academic health. Ana Homayouns new book provides strategies to unselfie our teens and develop a healthy, balanced relationship with social media.

Michele Borba, Ed.D.
Author of UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World
Palm Springs, CA

Rich with stories and thoughtful interpretations of tweens and teens online habits, curiosities, and consequences, Ana Homayoun provides parents and educators an especially powerful resource to confidently guide our students and children with tools, counsel, and reassurance as they navigate social media. Bravo!

Stephanie Balmer, Head of School
Harpeth Hall School
Nashville, TN

To my younger sister, Allia, whose in-real-life commentary and observations are some of the most brilliant, witty, and wise I have ever been privileged to experience.

Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World