IMMUNE TO NONSENSE - How to teach your child to think critically and unmask false authorities: A survival guide for the era of post-truth, fake news, (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798180814265)

Your child will see hundreds of lies before they finish elementary school. The question isn't whether they'll run into nonsense - it's whether they'll know how to spot it.

A deepfake that looks exactly like real footage. A YouTube "expert" who claims to know better than every doctor alive. A headline engineered to make your kid angry before they've had a chance to think. Our children are growing up in a world where a lie travels faster than the truth, and where false authorities compete for their attention and their trust.

You can't protect your child by taking away the phone or fact-checking the whole internet for them. You protect them by giving them something that can't be faked: their own judgment, and the habit of asking one simple question - how do we actually know that?

IMMUNE TO NONSENSE is a practical, refreshingly un-preachy guide for parents who want to raise a child who thinks for themselves - a kid who's resistant to manipulation, fake news, and disinformation. You don't need to be a media expert, and you don't need to lecture. You just need a way to talk with your child about who - and what - is worth believing, from preschool through the teenage years.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• understand how disinformation works, and why our brains fall for it so easily
• recognize a fake expert and call out the tricks of manipulation
• tell fact from opinion, and a reliable source from a shady one
• use "lateral reading," the secret weapon of professional fact-checkers
• spot the most common cognitive biases and thinking traps - your child's, and your own
• apply the simple "information detective" method: STOP - CHECK - THINK - DECIDE
• run dozens of ready-made conversations, questions, and age-appropriate exercises

This isn't a book about what your child should believe. It's a book about how to think - so they can tell truth from nonsense long after they've put it down.

Teach your kids to think critically - before an algorithm does it for them.