Software builder. Lifelong gamer. Father.
Michael D. Halden has spent his career inside the technology industry, building software and working with artificial intelligence. A lifelong gamer since the original Nintendo, he still plays online with family and friends. He is not afraid of screens. His family’s movie nights happen on a 130-inch one.
Michael and his wife raised their son around games, devices, YouTube, and the full pressure of a modern digital childhood while keeping social media outside the boundaries of that childhood. Their son is a young adult now and has chosen not to join social media.
Your Kid Is the Product is the account of how their family thought about intentional technology, addictive design, parental controls, age-based freedom, and the relationship that has to hold underneath every rule.
“I wrote this the way I would talk across a kitchen table: no lecture, no shame, and no pretending one family has a perfect formula.”
The book is Michael’s first book for parents.