Drawing: Harper Cowan

Cherishing childhood

Since 2014 have been an active and public advocate for reclaiming childhood in the face of the digital tsunami, raising awareness of the mental health impacts of screens, smartphones and social media, especially.

My book Families in the Digital Age (Hybrid Press, published in 2019) explores the impacts of mobile screens and ways to live well and be emotionally agile in the digital age.

The book was highly commended in the Nonfiction section of the 2020 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards.

I welcome invitations to run workshops, share ideas and tools in your community and learn from you to help reclaim and cherish childhood.

For parents who feel defeated by the powerful influence of social media in their children’s lives, this book will sympathise, illuminate, inspire and encourage us to believe there is another, better way to live.
— Hugh Mackay OA, leading psychologist and social researcher
This is one of the most needed and grab-you-by-the-throat, convincing books around today.
— Steve Biddulph AM, leading parent educator, psychologist and best-selling author

Listen up.

Neuroscientist Mark A. Williams and I met at the Social Media Summit in Sydney in October 2024. I invited Mark to Canberra for a conversation about his book, The Connected Species. Manning Clark House hosted the event in December 2024. In a wide-ranging chat about human evolution, Mark explains how we need to disconnect and embrace the offline life to feel truly connected.

Listen up.

Toni in conversation with Feed Play Love podcast host, Shevonne Hunt, here.

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