Watch It!: What Parents Need to Know to Raise Media-Smart Kids
Virtually all parents believe that "other kids may be influenced by the media, but my kid isn't." However, up until about the age of eight, kids are not able to distinguish between fantasy and reality. So they actually don't know the difference between real life and what they see, hear and learn on TV, radio, video games and the Internet.\ Watch It! highlights the likely consequences of kids consuming television and other media without adult intervention. It provides "What You Can Do"...
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Virtually all parents believe that "other kids may be influenced by the media, but my kid isn't." However, up until about the age of eight, kids are not able to distinguish between fantasy and reality. So they actually don't know the difference between real life and what they see, hear and learn on TV, radio, video games and the Internet.Watch It! highlights the likely consequences of kids consuming television and other media without adult intervention. It provides "What You Can Do" strategies at the end of each chapter to help parents intervene and reduce some of the media's problematic impacts on children. Chapters include:
Preface ixIntroduction xiChapter 1 Whatever Happened to Ozzie and Harriet? Life in Television Families 1Chapter 2 Sex and the City, and the Burbs and the Boonies: What the Media Teaches About Dating and Sex 20Chapter 3 "Don't Try This At Home!": The Media, Violence and Aggression 39Chapter 4 Friends - Cute Anorexic Chicks*: Health Issues and the Media 54Chapter 5 Has Anything Changed Since Charlie's Angels, Amos 'n' Andy or Chico and the Man? Media Stereotypes 69Chapter 6 Why Ernie Doesn't Read: The Media and Your Child's Brain 89Chapter 7 "We've Gotta Have It Now!" Commercials and Consumerism 103Chapter 8 Hit Men and Hookers: Video Games in Your Child's Life 116Chapter 9 Porn and Pedophilia: Stops on the Information Superhighway 127Chapter 10 Taming the Beast: Becoming Media Literate 143Notes 163Index 188About the Author 209
