Dr. Becker does an awesome job in illustrating how electromagnetic fields are putting our health at serious risk, profiling how research and their findings correlates electromagnetic radiation increases cancer, birth defects, depression, learning disabilities, Chronic Fatigue Sydrome, Altzheimers, AIDS and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In this groundbreaking book Dr. Becker explains how new and nontraditional healing techniques such as acupuncture, homeopathy, visualization, hypnosis and electrotherapy work through an invisible common source – the body’s electrical system. Dr. Becker offers practical ways to protect ourselves in our home, schools and offices from the hazardous effects of electromagnetic pollution and teaches us how to engage the healing energy of electromagnetism.

The Body Electric tells a fascinating story of our bioelectric cells. Dr. Becker, pioneer in the field of regeneration and relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the human body. While Dr. Becker explores the theory that electricity is vital to life, he also offers insight and knowledge into the detrimental effects of electromagnetic radiation, and low frequency radio waves, found in today’s technology of TV use, computers, cell phones and electrical appliances. An interesting read for those people who are seeking definitive evidence regarding relationships of too much electricity and learning difficulties such as the causal links between living under power lines and learning difficulties.

An interesting “devils advocate” read, social and cultural critic Steven Johnson proposes that the technology culture we use every day, has been growing more and more sophisticated with each passing year, posing new cognitive challenges that are actually making our minds measurably sharper. This book supports my theory that technology is not bad if used with respect, knowledge and balance. I think as a society we need to consider the recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding limiting TV and videogame use to no more than one to two hours per day, with no technology prior to the age of two years.

In his comprehensive practical and unsettling look at computers in children’s lives, Dr. Healy questions whether computers are really helping or harming children’s development. Once a bedazzled enthusiast of educational computing but now a troubled skeptic, Dr. Healy examines the advantages and drawbacks of computer use for kids at home and school, exploring its effects on children’s health, creativity, brain development, and social and emotional growth. Dr. Healy profiles how educational government are allocating scarce education funding to wire every classroom to the internet, and describes how software companies turn out “educational computer programs” even for preschoolers while school administrators cut funding and space for books, the arts, music and physical education to make room for new computer hardware, our children’s health and wellbeing are put in jeopardy. Dr. Healy eloquently points out that few people stop to consider the computers, used incorrectly may do more harm than good.

“If Jefferson, Bach and Einstien had been reared on PC’s, would we now have the Declaration of Independence, The Pashion According to St. Matthew and the Theory of Relativity? Not likely, if arguments marshaled by Jane Healy are correct, failure to connect sounds like a wake up call for teachers and parents who believe that computers alone with solve our educational problem. The bottom line: adult attention rather than Gigabytes is what makes children grow.”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and Creativity.

Dr. Healy beautifully traces the root of America’s escalating crisis in education, examining how television, videogames and other components of popular culture compromise our children’s abilities to concentrate to absorb and analyze information. Drawing on neuropsychological research and analysis of current educational practices, Dr. Healy presents in clear and understandable language:

How growing brains are physically shaped by experience
• Why television programs – even supposedly educational shows like Sesame Street – develop “habits of mind” that place children at a disadvantage at school
• Why increasing numbers of children are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder
• How parents and teachers can make a critical difference by making children good learners from the day they are born.

“Provocative, scholarly, and timely. Society may actually be changing our children’s brain for the worst.”
– Louise Bates Ames, Jeselle Institute of Human Development.

With characteristic whit and candor, Neil Postman launches a trenchant-an harrowing-warning against the tyranny of machines over man in the late 20th century. He postulates that we live in a time when our physical well being is determined by Cat Scan results, and believes that facts need substantiation of statistical study. Mr. Postman believes that we live in a Technopoly-a self justifying, self perpetuated system where in technology of every kind is cheerfully granted sovereignty over social institutions and national life. Mr. Postman’s previous book titled Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation from a society that uses technology to one that is shaped by it. Technopoly is a disturbing, passionate cry filled with the humane rationalism, and asserts that technology, placed within the context of our larger human goals and social values, is an invaluable instrument for furthering the most worthy human endeavors.

This book from the 70’s is the first ever to advocate that the medium of television is not reformable. It’s problems are inherent to the technology itself and are so dangerous-to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes-that TV ought to be eliminated forever. Personal experiences and meticulous research, Manzer ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely been examined and never before joined together, allowing an entirely new, frightening image to emerge. The idea that all technologies are “neutral” benign instruments that can be used well or badly, is doubtful. Speaking of TV reform is, in the words of the author, “As absurd as speaking of the reform of the technology such as guns”. One has to wonder why we as a society continue to burry our heads deep in the sand when information regarding the adverse effects of television technology has been around for over 40 years.

“The case against TV has never been made more effectively. It should be read by all addicts and anyone contemplating participation in the destruction of the mind to which TV leads.”
– Ashley Montague, Anthropologist and Author of The Nature of Human Aggression.

Sensory Secrets provides important information to expand our understanding of children, their behaviors and learning. It’s a “must read” for everyone who spends time with children. Sensory Secrets is a great book for parents of young children with Sensory Processing Disorder who are preparing their children for an academic environment.

A delightful book geared for 8-12 year old children with Sensory Processing difficulties to help them understand more about this disorder, and how their sensory systems develop. The GoodEnough are a family of 5 who have varying degrees of Sensory Processing disorders, as well as a naughty dog, and this book portrays how they get “In Sync” after a tough day.

This is a practical followup book to the Out-Of-Sync Child and is chalk full of a number of games and fun filled activities to help your “Out-Of-Sync child” strengthen their sensory processing skills. This book features more than 100 playful activities that are SAFE – Sensory –Motor, Appropriate, Fun and Easy – to help develop and organize child’s brain and body. These activities work at home, school and out in the world to add a few more smiles to your child’s face.