Your Kid Is the Product: A Tech Dad's Guide to Protecting Childhood from Social Media and Addictive Design

Your child isn't the customer. The product is their attention.Behind every endless feed is a system built to learn what holds a kid's eyes and keep serving it for as long as possible.This is the part most screen books skip: what to actually do.- See the system. Understand addictive design without jargon or panic.- Choose intention. Separate useful technology from extractive feeds.- Set boundaries. Build age-by-age rules without turning home into a war.- Reset real life. Change habits already in place and refill offline life.Inside, you'll find age-by-age rules from toddlers through teenagers, word-for-word scripts for "everyone has one" and "you're ruining my life," a thirty-day reset for families already in the hole, and the one idea that makes all of it work: the difference between technology that serves your family and technology that farms it.Build a family technology plan that works in real life, without jargon, panic, or turning your home into a war.