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Raising Kids in the Media Age

Watch It! What Parents Need to Know to Raise Media-Smart Kids
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Consuming Kids
new November 2008

So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids
(available August 2008,
Random House)
















TAKING BACK CHILDHOOD
Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World

The Big Turnoff: Confessions of a TV-Addicted Mom Trying to Raise a TV-Free Kid
The Big Turnoff
Confessions of a TV Addicted Mom
Trying to Raise a TV Free Kid


Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children from Birth to Age Five

 The Elephant in the Living Room: Make Television Work for Your Kids


Why TV is Good For Kids
Raising 21st Century Children
review


The Media Diet for Kidz
     

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Children, Teens, 
Families, and Mass Media:
The Millennial Generation
by Rose Kundanis
LEA
ISBN:0805845631 

Media, Home 
and Family

  Stewart M Hoover,
Lynn Schofield Clark,
Diane F Alters

Routledge
ISBN: 0415969166

 


Talking Pictures: A Parents' Guide to Using Movies to Discuss Issues with Children 


The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media's Effect on Our Children
 Atria Books; ISBN: 074340582X; (May 2002)

Homepage for the book.   
Table of Contents.

Read excerpt here.

Children in the Digital Age: Electronic Media and Children’s Development,  
Calvert, S.L., Jordan, A.B. & Cocking, R.R. (2002). Praeger

 

Dr. Dave's Cyberhood: Making Media Choices That Create a Healthy Electronic Environment for Your Kids Cover
Dr. Dave's Cyberhood  Making Media Choices That Create A Healthy Electronic Environment for Your Kids,  
David Walsh,    Fireside Books
ISBN: B000068IIZ
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SAGE Publications;

ISBN: 0761921257

 


Mommy, I'm Scared:
How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We Can Do to Protect Them