THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONNECT
By Susan Maushart
Profile Books. 278 pages. £11.99
ISBN 978 1 846 684 647
Would you dare to do it? If you were the parent of three teenage children, would you dare to disconnect TV, computer and ban mobile phones for six whole months?
Susan Maushart, an American mother living in Australia, did just that and lived to tell the tale of what became known as The Experiment. This book is the story of that six months. It tells of the horror, disbelief and sometimes envy of other parents. It tells of the sulks and moods, the rants and the strops of the ‘deprived’ teenagers. And it tells what happened, to their schoolwork, their sleep patterns, their eating habits and so much more. Read it. This is no gooey winning-through story. There are highs and lows. There is profit and loss.
