My Tech-Wise Life: Growing Up and Making Choices in a World of Devices

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While most of her peers were obsessed with their iPhones, Instagramming and Snapchatting their lives, and glued to streaming TV, nineteen-year-old Amy Crouch was growing up with minimal technology. In My Tech-Wise Life, she and her father, Andy Crouch, share how intentional and controlled use of modern devices, apps, and services has helped her avoid many of the negative experiences of her peers and cultivate positive experiences interacting with the real world.



With writing that connects on a teen-to-teen level, Amy and Andy unpack tech temptations—such as the temptation to distract ourselves from any potentially boring or awkward situation, or to stay up-to-date with every notification and trend—and then offer antidotes that lead to more patience, wisdom, honesty, and wonder in life.



If you're in high school or college and devices and social media are affecting your friendships and family life, your sense of self-worth, or even how well you think you know yourself, this book will help you reevaluate your relationship with technology—and renew your relationship with the world around you.

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Amy Crouch is a student at Cornell University studying linguistics, English, and anything else she can fit into her schedule. She loves to cook, climb mountains, and chat about books. Andy Crouch is an author, speaker, musician, and dad. In addition to his books The Tech-Wise Family, Culture Making, Playing God, and Strong and Weak, his work has been featured in Time, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Lecrae's 2014 single "Non-Fiction." He lives with his family in Pennsylvania. David Cochran Heath has voiced characters for computer games and public television, hosted an instructional video series for automotive repair, and was the narrator for a long-running radio program for kids. He has recorded over 140 books, including three versions of the Bible as sole reader: ESV, KJV, and NIrV. Rachel L. Jacobs holds a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College's Theater Program. She has years of experience as a theater and musical theater actress, touring the West Coast (of the US) and China. An AudioFile Earphones and Parent's Choice Award-winning narrator, Rachel now narrates books full-time.

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