Victoria L. Dunckley, M.D.

If you are reading reviews on this book, “Reset Your Child’s Brain”, then you are probably wondering why your kids are acting like aliens who have come down and invaded your child brain and turned them into difficult, moody, and depressed shells of themselves. PLEASE, do yourself and your child a favor by reading this book. You will have to put some work in as a parent and help guide your child through this process, but the end result will be beyond worth it.

I have 3 boys. Each effected differently by screen time. My youngest, was most effected. He is 11 and has always struggled with a pinch of depression, a pinch of OCD, and a little anxiety. Over the last year of so, it has gotten worse. I was ready to medicate him. After years of therapy and searching for the right tools to give him to help him with these issues, I found myself exhausted and out of ideas. He was so scattered at school. He wasn’t organized and had trouble concentrating in school, yet had no true symptoms of ADHD. His meltdowns were taxing on me and I would hold my breath every morning until I could get him to school. He often would try to stay home, crying, saying was having anxiety about school because he felt so behind and lost. When he would go to school, I would often have calls from the nurse. It was exhausting. While waiting to see a doctor who could prescribe, I came across an article by Victoria Dunckley. It was like she wrote it for us. I decided to give the book a read. IT CHANGED OUR LIFE.

My boys use to spend their weekends yelling and fighting over a certain popular video game that was literally RUINING OUR FAMILY. All they cared about was spending money on worthless online virtual weapons and skins… they would relentlessly ask me for money for this BS! I was hoping it was a fad and go away, but it doesn’t.

After reading this book, my husband and immediately did the reset. The consoles will NEVER be back in our home. The YouTube watching of video games, GONE. The phone (Gone for the little one), iPad, computers are now heavily monitored.

YES, it was hard for the first 3 weeks, then it gets easier. You have to do this when you can dedicate time and energy to your child. YOU are the one who can help your child “detox” and it will be worth EVERYTHING you go through to get there. We are 3 months into this now and my kids don’t even ask for video games. They could care less. My youngest no longer has meltdowns. He is noticeably happier and reading books like crazy. He plays outside unprompted. His teacher told me he has made a “vast improvement”. He will tell you himself how good he feels. The “depression” has vanished. He is sleeping like he has never slept before, waking up rested, no more night terrors. I could go on and on.

The science behind this book is ASTONISHING and something that every parent, counselor and educator should read.

You will get results from this book in one way or another. Find a friend to do this with, it could help you and your child to have someone else doing this at the same time. You will no longer have to yell at your kids to “finish your turn” or “put your phone away at dinner” or “20 more minutes”!

In fact, if you don’t do the reset you will spend more energy policing these games and screen time than you will if you just put the time in to do the reset.

Thank you Dr. Dunckley. My family is forever grateful for this book and your message. I feel like I have the best version of my boys back and I never ended up medicating. The answer was right there. MOOD DISORDERS ARE EXACERBATED BY SCREEN TIME!

Ok, I’ll stop now. Buy the book, or listen to the audio, or both!