Tips and ideas for parents (or grandparents) about media in the lives of children. Plus, practical pointers for introducing media literacy concepts and skills to children of different ages.
• Questions to Guide Young Children
Media in the Lives of Children • ABC's of Media Literacy: What Can Pre-Schooolers Learn? • Altered States: How Television Changes Childhood • CHILDREN: Learning to Decipher TV Culture • CHILDREN: Media's Message Can Fool Kids • CHILDREN: TV Tool Teaches Election Basics • CHILDREN:: Vigilant Parents Fill Media's Gaps • Educational TV May Boost Intellectual Development • Five Healthy TV Habits for Families • Five Important Ideas To Teach Your Kids About TV • From Savers to Spenders: How Children Became a Consumer Market • Growing Up in a Media World • Home, Home on the Remote: Why Do Men Control "the Clicker"? • Imitations of Immortality: How Children Learn a Culture of Consumerism • Is It Time to Move the TV? • Mapping A Geography of Media • Media Violence: We All Share In It • Six Kinds of Screen Violence — and How Children Respond • STARTING POINT: It All Begins at Home • STARTING POINT: Turning the tables on TV sex • The Technological Child • Toying With War • Tuning in to TV Sex: How to Use Media to Dialogue with your Children • What Parents Can Do about Media Violence • What's Wrong with the Ratings? • When Kids are Watching: Confessions of a SitCom Producer • Where Does it Come From? Where Does it Go? • Wired Bedrooms: Kids' Media Choices Made Behind Closed Doors • YOUTH: Teens Need Better Rites of Passage
Media Literacy Tips & Activities for Families • Bridging the Gap: Sharing Your Family's Life Stories • CHILDREN: Helping Children Challenge Male Stereotypes • CHILDREN: Questions Help Challenge False Images • CHILDREN: Finding Green Lessons in Fast Food • CHILDREN: Parents Can Help Defuse Bad News • FAMILY: 'Tossed Salad' Culture Honors Diversity • FAMILY: Modeling the Medium: A Parent's Role • FAMILY: Oral Histories Harvest Family Heritage • FAMILY: Questions to Analyze Political Media • FAMILY: Learning to Live In Interracial World • FAMILY: Shared Music Listening Opens Dialogue • FAMILY: The Family That Plays Together... • FAMILY: Working Together Gives Peace a Chance • Guidelines for Quality Children's Television • How to Watch Television with Your Grandchildren • Making the Media Work for You: Action Ideas for Families • Snapshots from a TV Album: Scenarios Explore Family Viewing Habits • Television Exerts Powerful Draw • Trauma on the News: Should Children Watch? • VCR: Questions for Family Reflection • Video Visits Help Families Say 'I Love You' • Violence Formula: Analyzing TV, Video and Movies • What YOU can do to help your family -- and community -- become media literate?
