Don't Let the Algorithm Raise Them: Attention. Courage. Childhood beyond the screen. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798198046597)

Your child is growing up in a world designed to capture attention. This book helps you protect something deeper. Childhood itself.

Screens, feeds, games, social media, short-form video, and AI tools have entered family life so quietly that many parents can feel the change before they can name it. The problem is not one app, one device, or one difficult week. The deeper question is what kind of childhood these systems are replacing, and what kind of child they are training.

Don't Let the Algorithm Raise Them is a calm, practical, and emotionally intelligent guide for parents who want to raise children with attention, courage, and real-world confidence in the age of screens and AI.

Anna Westbrook shows why modern childhood needs more than screen-time limits. Children also need boredom, play, waiting, physical competence, friendship without performance, family rhythms, responsibility, and enough ordinary friction to discover what they can do.

This book helps parents understand why attention is one of childhood's most important resources, how screens become the default adult in the room, why boredom is not a parenting failure, and how real-world courage is built through small risks, real responsibility, and daily life beyond the feed.

It also offers a grounded way to think about phones, group chats, gaming, family rules, AI homework, and the quiet defaults that shape a home.

This is not an anti-technology book. It is not a guilt trip. It is not a call for impossible purity.

It is a book about becoming awake to the systems shaping childhood, and choosing, with calm conviction, what kind of family life your child still gets to have.

The algorithm can learn what your child wants next. It cannot raise the person your child is becoming.