Dopamine Kids
A Science-Based Plan to Rewire Your Child's Brain and Take Back Your Family in the Age of Screens and Ultraprocessed Foods
What is Dopamine Kids about?
NPR science correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff draws on recent research suggesting dopamine drives motivation rather than pleasure, and applies that lens to children's use of screens and ultraprocessed foods. The book lays out a five-step, four-week plan for parents to reset household norms, replace screen time with equally engaging activities, and remove environmental triggers that pull kids toward compulsive use.
Where Ryan has discussed this book
What if everything we know about modern parenting is wrong? NPR global health correspondent and bestselling author Michaeleen Doucleff joins The Ryan Vet Show for the first guest episode of… Michaeleen Doucleff: Hunt, Gather, Parent, Dopamine Kids, and What Modern Parenting Gets Wrong Books like Dopamine Kids
Publication details
- Publisher
- Avid Reader Press
- Published
- 2026
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9781668049839
