Description: In digitally connected middle-class households with school-going children, from toddlers through to varsity students, the practice of transcendent parenting has arisen. Transcendent Parenting addresses modern parenting in the digital world, and it reveals potential consequences for both parents and children.
Review Quotes: "As the world hurtles ever further into an era of perpetual contact with media, Lim offers a fluent and well-informed analysis of the multiple effects of mobile technology on parent-child relationships. She dexterously examines a rich array of parent-child realities across varying social classes and cultures." -- James E. Katz, Ph.D, Boston University
"Sun Sun Lim's social analysis is robust, insightful, and important for anyone studying any field related to mobile communication." -- Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science"With richly detailed stories of parental concerns about mobile media and the strategies they embrace to address them, this volume will be of great interest to parents, educators, and everyone who cares about children and contemporary family life in a digital age." -- Lynn Schofield Clark, Ph.D, University of Denver