Books for Parents
as recommended by Frank Baker, media educator
 

Dr. Dave's Cyberhood  Making Media Choices That Create A Healthy Electronic Environment for Your Kids,  David Walsh, Ph.D,    Fireside Books

The Smart Parent's Guide to KIDS' TV,  Milton Chen, Ph.D,  KQED Books

The Media Wise Family, Ted Baehr, Chariot Victor Publishing

TV Time, Debra Koontz Traverso, Avon Books

TV Proof Your Kids, A Parent's Guide to Safe and Healthy Viewing, Lauryn Axelrod, Citadel Press

Parenting Well In A Media Age, Keeping Our Kids Human, Gloria De Gaetano & Diane Dreher, Personhood Press

Screen Smarts: Raising Media Literate Kids, Gloria De Gaetano/Kathleen Bander, Houghton-Mifflin

Stay Tuned! Raising Media Savvy Kids In The Age of the Channel Surfing Couch Potato, Jane Murphy and Karen Tucker,  Main Street Books (Doubleday)

Parenting by Remote Control, Making the Media Work For Rather Than Against Your Family, Christopher and Melodie Lane,  Vine Books

How To Get The Best out of TV, Before It Gets The Best of You, Dale & Karen Mason, Broadman & Holman Publishers

Kick The TV Habit, Steve & Ruth Bennett, Penguin Books

Use TV To Your Child's Advantage,  Dorothy Singer, Jerome Singer, Diana Zukerman, Acropolis Books

Taming The Wild Tube, A Family's Guide to TV and Video, Robert L. Schrag, UNC Press

Raising PG Kids In An X-Rated Society, Tipper Gore, Abingdon Press

Taking Advantage of Media, A Manual for Parents and Teachers, Laurene Krasny Brown, Routledge & Kegan Paul

The Plug-In Drug, Television, Children and the Family, Marie Winn, Viking Press

The Family Guide to Children's Television, What To Watch, What to Miss, What to Change, and How To Do It
Evelyn Kaye,  Pantheon Books