Dopamine Kids: A Science-Based Plan to Rewire Your Child's Brain and Take Back Your Family in the Age of Screens and Ultraprocessed Foods

別讓螢幕與加工食品，偷走孩子的快樂與專注力！

本書被譽為兒童版的《多巴胺國度》，並與《焦慮世代》（The Anxious Generation）互為表裡，填補了「知道問題，但不知道怎麼做」的最後一里路。

「為什麼孩子一放下平板就發脾氣？為什麼蔬菜再好也沒有洋芋片吸引人？」 答案不在於孩子調皮，而在於他們的大腦正被現代商業精確設計的「多巴胺陷阱」所劫持。

繼全球暢銷書《自然教養》（Hunt, Gather, Parent）後，NPR 科學記者 Michaeleen Doucleff 博士帶來了這部改變遊戲規則的作品。她深入腦科學與心理學的前線，為現代父母提供了一套「大腦重塑計畫」，教你如何將多巴胺從「成癮的枷鎖」轉變為「成長的動力」。

這不只是一本書，而是一個五步驟行動指南：

★拆解多巴胺路徑： 了解電子遊戲與垃圾食物如何精準瞄準孩子的獎勵系統。

★建立「無螢幕聖殿」： 透過環境設計，讓孩子自然而然遠離誘惑。

★找回真實的成就感： 用更有趣的實體活動（如烹飪、戶外冒險）取代低產出的多巴胺刺激。

★重新導向動力： 教導孩子如何利用多巴胺來專注於具挑戰性的長期任務。

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hunt, Gather, Parent comes a revolutionary five-step guide—packed with practical, science-backed strategies—that shows you how to raise confident, happy children, while breaking the cycle of overdependence on screens and ultraprocessed foods.

Nearly everything you’ve heard about dopamine is wrong. No, it’s not the molecule of happiness. And no, it doesn’t give us pleasure—it gives us motivation.

For the first time in history, we are inundated with what are known as “dopamine surges” inside our brains. These surges pull us to technology like magnets, every day, many times a day. Over the past decade, neuroscientists have finally begun to figure out how these surges alter our choices, our habits, and even our moods. We’ve learned how dopamine can drive adults and kids to engage in activities that we don’t actually enjoy—activities that can make us feel sad, lonely, anxious, and depressed.

When Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD, the New York Times bestselling author of Hunt, Gather, Parent, decided to address her family’s screen time and dependence on processed foods, she found that scientific study after scientific study refuted nearly all the claims she’d read in the media about dopamine and the supposed reasons we’re so inclined to pick up our phones or raid the pantry. She took this new neuroscience and psychology and merged it with practical experience, shifting the power dynamic back to families: instead of devices and foods controlling us, we control them, and both screens and the pantry become tools rather than burdens.

Dopamine Kids is a five-step operating manual for habit remodeling that is tailored for parents and their children. After rediscovering what’s most important for your family, you’ll learn how to create successful boundaries around screens and ultraprocessed foods; replace screen time with equally enticing activities; remove triggers that pull children toward screens and junk food; and, finally, celebrate your family’s choices before, during, and after trying new hobbies. These five steps weaken the neurological pathways established by devices and make dopamine work in your favor to get kids to want to pursue high-quality activities that reduce anxiety, create better moods, and diversify interests.

Dr. Doucleff’s research culminates in a four-week plan to create screen-free sanctuaries that protect conversations, focus, sleep, and adventure. After reading Dopamine Kids, you will be empowered to create habits that genuinely fulfill your family’s biological and emotional needs, bring true fulfillment and purpose to their lives, and improve their behavior, happiness, and confidence. The Anxious Generation alerted you to the danger of screens, but the demands of the twenty-first century require that you use them anyway. Dopamine Kids is your handbook for solving that fundamental problem of our times—and teaching your kids to have a healthy relationship with technology and food.

作者 Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD： 她不只是暢銷作家，更是走在科學最前線的觀察者。

權威背景： 加州大學伯克利分校化學博士，曾任職於美國國家衛生研究院（NIH）。

媒體影響力： 美國國家公共廣播電台（NPR）資深記者，曾獲傳媒界最高榮譽 喬治·福斯特·皮博迪獎（Peabody Award）。