The Screen Monster

A story to help kids find balance in a digital world

Ages 4–12 · £24.90 printed · £9.90 e-book

A warm story that helps children see how too much screen time quietly takes away their joy, their sleep, their focus and their connection with the real world — and how they can take it all back, one healthy habit at a time.

Psychological impact

Screens deliver fast dopamine; real life delivers slow reward. Children raised only on the fast loop lose tolerance for boredom, which is exactly where creativity and self-regulation are born. This book externalises the pull as a character the child can look at, judge — and choose against. Choice, not prohibition, is what builds self-control.

For the parent

It replaces the daily fight over the tablet with a shared story and a family agreement. You stop being the one who takes things away and become the one who offers something better.