Anytime Playdate: Inside the Preschool Entertainment Boom, Or, How Television Became My Baby's Best Friend more books like this

by Dade Hayes

The author of "Open Wide" takes a startling look at the explosion of the multi-billion-dollar preschool entertainment business and its effects on a new generation of children.

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The Smart Parent's Guide to Kids' TV more books like this

by Milton Chen, PH.D., Andy Bricky (Foreword by)

Dr. Milton Chen--who has worked in program development for "Sesame Street" and the "Electric Company"--shows parents how to make use of the educational potential of television, video, and other media--while avoiding their pitfalls. Short, concise chapters spotlight subjects such as TV and violence, role models, and more.

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The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children, and the Family; Revised Edition more books like this

by Marie Winn

Based on interviews with families, teachers and child specialists, this study examines television's impact on children. The book addresses the question - how does the passive act of watching television affect the developing child's relationship with the real world? This revised edition includes material on video games and computers, as well as a ...

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Media and the American Child more books like this

by George Comstock, Erica Scharrer

This new work summarizes the research on all forms of media on children, looking at how much time they spend with media everyday, television programming and its impact on children, how advertising has changed to appeal directly to children and the effects on children and the consumer behavior of parents, the relationship between media use and ...

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The Window in the Corner: A Half-Century of Children's Television more books like this

by Ruth Inglis

Children's television is a slightly curious field. Of all entertainments, it is probably the most ambivalent in nature. Children usually love it, both the good and the bad, while parents and producers have never been totally convinced of its value. Does it teach? Does it corrupt? Is it harmless, beneficial? The soul-searching goes on and on. Here ...

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Teaching television : how to use TV to your child's advantage more books like this

by Dorothy G. Singer, Jerome L. Singer, Diana M. Zuckerman

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Television and Children: A Special Medium for a Special Audience more books like this

by Aimee Dorr

Aim[ac]ee Dorr examines children's interaction with television, emphasizing the child's active role in making sense of television. She discusses specific examples of programmes watched by children; the sense they make of advertising and programming; what children know about the medium; what a formal feature is; what effects television can have; ...

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Children's Understanding of Television: Research on Attention and Comprehension more books like this

by Jennings Bryant

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Television & American Family 2nd CL more books like this

by Jennings Bryant (Editor)

The updated second edition of this work examining the effect of television on America's families, investigates the uses families make of television, family attitudes towards television and the effects of television on family life.

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How to raise children in a TV world more books like this

by Leland W. Howe, Bernard Solomon

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The Early Window: Effects of Television on Children and Youth more books like this

by Robert M Liebert

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The ACT Guide to Children's Television more books like this

by Evelyn Kaye

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Growing Up on Television: A Report to Parents more books like this

by Kate Moody

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Children with Special Needs: ACT's Guide to TV Programming for Children more books like this

by Maureen Harmonay (Editor), Action for Childrens Television

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Watch It!: What Parents Need to Know to Raise Media-Smart Kids more books like this

by Mary Strom Larson

A how-to/self-help parenting book that 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: Life in Television ...

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The ACT Guide to Children's Television: Or How to Treat TV with T.L.C. more books like this

by Evelyn Kaye

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Action for children's television; [edited transcript of] the first National Symposium on the Effect on Children of Television Programming and Advertising. more books like this

by Evelyn Sarson

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