Generation Text: Raising Well-Adjusted Kids in an Age of Instant Everything 
Dr. Michael Osit
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BOOK SUMMARY
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For today’s kids, technology such as computers, the Internet, cell phones, and satellites is an assumed presence. Between texting, e-mail, gaming, instant-messaging, and online commerce, their world is one of constant electronic interaction through which they have almost instant access to everything from information to merchandise to other people. In this culture of instant gratification and potential excess, parenting has become a bigger challenge than ever. Generation Text examines the ways in which children's identities are shaped by the world around them…and how, with an absence of meaningful barriers between impulse and the ability to act on them, parents can help children learn to make intelligent choices and manage the potential overload successfully. Dr. Michael Osit, has worked with children and teens for more than thirty years, and has helped families challenged by the new order of access and excess—and the temptations and dangers that go with it. His advice will help you help your children develop key social skills, a healthy identity, and a sense of purpose and accountability. Generation Text provides the sage advice and proven parenting strategies for raising confident, happy, and safe kids who will be fully equipped for their future.
DR. MICHAEL OSIT
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As a practicing psychologist with over 40 year’s experience, Dr. Osit provides consultation, assessment, and psychotherapy for children, adolescents, families, couples and adults.  Dr. Osit is a frequent presenter both locally and nationally on a wide variety of topics for professionals, parents, schools, and agencies.  In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Osit is the author of “Generation Text: Raising Well-Adjusted Kids In An Age Of Instant Everything,” (Amacom, 2008), awarded “Best Book of the Year” by Instructor Magazine, June 2008, and is one of 5 finalists out of 440 books reviewed in the 13th Annual Books For Life Awards in the category of Parenting.  His most recent book is entitled, “The Train Keeps Leaving Without Me: A Practical Guide to Happiness, Freedom, and Self Fulfillment” (CreateSpace, 2016).  He also authors a column entitled, “Mind The Mind” appearing in a bi-monthly NJ publication called Warren Connections2, and has been a regular contributor to The Huffington Post Lifestyle/Parenting section.  Dr. Osit has had a strong media presence, appearing on numerous national and local television and radio programs, webinars, and podcasts, and is frequently interviewed for national magazines and web based publications such as Parent, Parenting, Women’s Day, Better Homes & Gardens, Self, and Parade, to name a few.