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Your Child: TV and Video Viewing
Media, Marketing, and your Child From television, movies, and magazines, media is a constant presence in our lives. Young children's lives are flooded with media images, but they need help to understand what they are seeing. Look at what your child is watching; decide what is appropriate and what ...
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Electronic Media and Young Children
Television is a daily presence in the lives of most young children, and video games on consoles and computers are also widely used by children. But how does exposure to television, computers, electronic games and other such media affect children’s health and development? Researchers and ...
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What is Media Literacy?
Most media messages are constructed with a purpose. Media literacy can help youth understand messages — actual or...
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Violence in Audio-Visual Media: How Educators Can Respond
Over the past 20 years there have been numerous studies and frequent warnings about violent television programs and...
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TV Turn Off Week: Are you up for the Challenge?
American children in grades 3-12 spend an average of nearly 4 hours a day watching TV or other prerecorded movies or...
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Teaching Good Attitudes Through Televised Sports
Playing sports can be a great way to teach your children good values, including teamwork, sportsmanship, and fair play....
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Can TV Lead to ADHD?
Popping up in approximately 2 million children nationwide, ADHD has the makings of a modern epidemic. Could the root of...
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Computers: How and When to Get Your Child Started
Too much of anything is never good, especially when it comes to children watching television. With childhood obesity...
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Dealing with Media Pressure
Without doubt, media messages influence the values that make up our character. The media—TV, radio, newspapers,...
Source: U.S. Department of Education
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