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Free for a limited time How art helps ADHD Drug and medicine for ADHD - facts, side effects, how long effective Pages Related to Children and Media Influenc: Education Ideas Educational school strategies Book Store Children Mental Health: Infants and Babies Children and Television Children and Movies Child Abuse Autism   Living Without the Screen: Causes and Consequences of Life without Television by Marina Krcmar Living Without the Screen provides an in-depth study of those American families and individuals who opt not to watch television, exploring the reasons behind their choices, discussing their beliefs about television, and examining the current role of television in the American family. Author Marina Krcmar answers several questions in the volume: What is television? Who are those people who reject it? What are their reasons for doing so? How do they believe their lives are different because of this choice? What impact does this choice have on media research? This volume provides a current, distinctive, and important look at how personal choices on media use are made, and how these choices reflect more broadly on media’s place in today’s society. A compelling exploration of the motivations and rationales for those who choose to live without television, this book is a must-read for scholars and researchers working in children and media, media literacy, sociology, family studies and related areas. It will also be of interest to anyone with questions about media usage and the choices families make regarding the role of media in their lives. How to overcome ADHD without medication. This 104 page book gives practical ideas on how parents and educators can help children to overcome symptoms associated with ADHD, without a prescription. Proven methods, many references, footnotes, bibliography, index, recommended reading and agencies. "Mommy, I'm Scared": How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We Can Do to Protect Them by Joanne Cantor Ph.D. Nightmares, anxiety, intense fear, and physical pain are typical reactions that children have to scary TV. This very important book considers such childhood fears and how they affect us as teenagers and adults. Cantor, a student at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Center, comes down hard on TV programs, movie reruns, and TV news as the "uninvited intruders" in our home. What to do? Monitor very carefully, or discard the TV. Cantor offers ways to help children work through their fears, including distracting, desensitizing, and reasoning, and she analyzes movie ratings (Jaws, for example, is PG) and why we love violence so much. An excellent addition to public library shelves.?Linda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, PA Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Children, Adolescents, and Media Violence: A Critical Look at the Research by Steven J. Kirsh "This book, written for those who can read and think at the college graduate level, leaves the reader with enough sophistication to resist the temptation to oversimplify the subject while using his or her new understanding to discuss the matter as an expert. . . I would gladly put Children, Adolescents, and Media Violence in the hands of every school superintendent, policy maker, principal, and politician I could. . . The latest edition of Children, Adolescents, and Media Violence is a must-read for every graduate student in a clinical psychology program as well as every clinician and potential media consultant in the behavioral sciences." (Joseph H. McCoy Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books ) No Child Left Different (Childhood in America) by Sharna Olfman "Children in America are being given psychotropic medications at an ever-increasing rate, driven by the fashionable diagnoses like bipolar disorder. No Child Left Different charts the emergence of this phenomenon. --David Healy, Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids by Diane E. Levin Ph.D. (Author), Jean Kilbourne Ed.D. The authors (Levin is a professor of education; Kilbourne, an authority on the effects of advertising) accuse the media of sexualizing children. Constantly, American children are exposed to a barrage of sexual images in television, movies, music and the Internet. They are taught young that buying certain clothes, consuming brand-name soft drinks and owning the right possessions will make them sexy and cool—and being sexy and cool is the most important thing. Young men and women are spoon-fed images that equate sex with violence, paint women as sexually subservient to men and encourage hooking up rather than meaningful connections. The result is that kids are having sex younger and with more partners than ever before. Eating disorders and body image issues are common as early as grade school. Levin and Kilbourne stress that there is nothing wrong with a young person's natural sexual awakening, but it is wrong to allow a young person's sexuality to be hijacked by corporations who want them as customers. The authors offer advice on how parents can limit children's exposure to commercialized sex, and how parents can engage kids in constructive, age-appropriate conversation about sex and the media. One need only read the authors' anecdotes to see why this book is relevant. (Sept.) --Publishers Weekly - Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and Five Keys to Fixing It by M. Gigi Durham, Ph.D The Sexualization of Childhood (Childhood in America) by Sharna Olfman Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as a source—the source—of female empowerment. And commercialization has spread the message faster and farther, reaching girls at ever-younger ages. Page updated: May 18, 2011 Media Violence and Sexuality for Children From books: So Sexy, So Soon by Dianne Levin, Ph.D., Jean Kilbourne Ed.D. and Mommy, I'm Scared, How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What Parents Can Do To Protect Them. by Joanne Cantor, Ph.D. See also: The Sexualization of Childhood edited by Sharna Olfman review and information (on-site).   From: So Sexy, So Soon Dianne Levin, Ph.D. and Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D List of sexy icons and communication channels for children Television: Bratz Dolls, Cartoons, Movies Pro-wrestling Girls PowerPuff Girls TV in the bedroom 70% of TV for teens has sexual content 2,000 Sex Acts/Year - Average teen sees on TV Disney Channel Cable Television Music: photo: http://www.blog.peacemagazine.com/ Rihanna, R & B sensation, her concerts and music videos directed mostly to young teens, plenty of pre-teen also view. The title of her album "Good Girls Gone Bad," just about sums up the theme. MTV, BET, from cable-TV, and YouTube videos use sex to attract viewers and exploit everything from lesbianism to flirting with beastiality as the hook. Many music videos might be described as, "artistically directed soft-porn." Lady Gaga's Poker Face video, is like being party to an orgy, and verifies the truth in the statement, "pornography has gone mainstream." MTV & Music Videos - Cable/Satellite TV and Music Disney, Mickey Mouse club star Britney Spears' first album was a bridge for child sex exploitation, with Spears dressed sexually with a sexy school dress and lollipop. She makes the top of the list in Levin's "Too Sexy, Too Soon. Britney Spears (Disney) High School Musical (Disney) Ashley Tisdale from High School Musical ventures beyond the Disney structure in this sexy music video for the hit song, He Said, She Said. "What is that little girl watching?" I wrote in my journal, watching a 6 year old on the Internet, YouTube, at the public library. "Is it some pornographic thing? Where's the mother? How would a mother allow her six-year-old to watch a video like that unattended?" It was Ashley Tisdale, that explained it. High School Musical Vanessa Hudgens is spoken of by 3rd graders in lowered voices, concerning the pornographic pictures they have seen on the Internet which she had made (and gotten into trouble for). Dianne Levin, Ph.D. describes High School Musical as a sort of bridge by which children can go on to more advanced sexually oriented media. Tisdale stars in a new R-rated movie that is clearly not for children, but, which, no doubt, many children will see, because it comes from a source from which they have become accustomed and come to trust. Spice Girls (Let me be your lover) [Today's Disney Cheetah Girls] (Disney) Christian Agueleira L'il Kim 50 Cent (Gantsta rapper) - P.I.M.P. Justin Timberlake - SexyBack Eminem Magazines and Icons Barbie Levin has a hard time understanding the new Barbie Dolls lingerie version for children. Perfectly sculpted carved sexy bodies from get-go, Barbie Dolls have always been something of a controversy. Do they contribute to some girls development of anorexia? Do they pose another impossible iconized image for girls to live up to? Many believe so. Lingerie Barbie My Scene Barbie CosmoGirl [magazine] Sports illustrated Swimsuit issue Shirts for kids with slogans - I'm Hot - Juicy, slogans across rear end, etc. Video Games Video games in the bedroom PG-13 spin-off video games for 10-year-olds and younger Hasbro's DreamLife TV Video Game Movies American Pie Movie for teens - 1999 - About desperately seeking to lose one's virginity. Internet 12% of all websites are pornography 25% of all web-searches are pornography Webkinz Icon Violence For Kids: Grand Theft Auto (Sex and Violence) GI Jo Transformers is an example of intense violence marketed to preschool and other young children. [Pro-wrestling] Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Wars Things which Frighten Children - Sources of Violence for Children - from book: Mommy, I'm scared: how TV and movies frighten children and what parents can do about it. by Joanne Cantor, Ph.D., professor of communication at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Overall Effects over time: Desensitization to violence and others? suffering. Imitation of violence/violent acts. Movies: What most children will see: The X-Files "A woman parks her car in a dark garage, she sees a footprint in snow outside, she takes a garden tool off the wall, a man lunges toward her, and she slashes his face with the tool (we see bloody gashes and the man screams); then she runs and another man chases and tackles her. A man places a dead body on a chopping block and we see him raise an ax over it and then hear a thump when the ax comes down; we see a pile of what looks like severed limbs to the side. A sedated man is placed on a chopping block, an ax is raised over him and the man holding the ax is struck hard from behind and he falls to the ground unconscious. A man begins to cut along a woman's neck (we see a bloody cut) planning to sever her head but he is interrupted. We see a severed head with tubes that pump blood through it and we see the eyes blink..." The X-Files I Want to Believe, 2008. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443701/parentalguide Jaws The Day After (1983) The Incredible Hulk Batman Goosebumps E.T. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho When a Stranger Calls (1979, 2006) Piranha (movie) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Jurassic Park James Bond movies Dumbo (1941, Disney) Sleeping Beauty (1959, Disney) Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937, Disney) The sharp dichotomy between purity and pure evil is a recurring theme in Disney movies for children. Fouts and Lawson (Calgary University) feel that this stereotyping can cause children to view others as being all-good or all-evil. Lawson also believes that Disney movies might contribute to a child's fear and misconception of mental illness, with scores of references to "mad," "crazy," lunatic," etc. in their most widely known children's movies. Alice in Wonderland (Disney) (1951) Photo: www.fanpop.com Beauty and the Beast (Disney) Peter Pan (1953, Disney) Bambi (1942, Disney) "it's better to wait" - until children are older - "for this movie" Charlotte's Web (some children were scared from) Captain Kangaroo (some children were scared from) [Chucky Cheese-some children are scared from] Ghostbusters Kindergarten Cop Creature from the Black Lagoon The Blob (horror movie) My Girl (movie) Bonnie and Clyde (intense-1960s) The Wild Bunch (intense -1960s) What about 1/2-3/4 of children will see: Natural Born Killers A Nightmare on Elm Street Creepshow 2 Invasion of the Body Snatchers Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Exorcist Poltergiest Silence of the Lambs Friday the 13th The Amityville Horror Halloween (movie) Television: What most children will see: The television news (when reality is a nightmare) - foreign wars and famine examples: Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda [Afghanistan, Iraq] - murder of JonBonet Ramsey - kidnapping - rapes - violence The X-Files Star Trek Sci-Fi Channel (cable) Scooby Doo "The Count" on Sesame Street Rescue 911 Cops (Song: Bad Boys - Bad Boys Whatcha gonna do, watcha gonna do when they come for you?) Unsolved Mysteries Little House on the Prairie (judged the most frightening TV program of its day for children). Michael Jackson's Thriller Hunter (TV show) Beverly Hills 90210 What about 1/2-3/4 of children will see: Creepshow Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Burning Bed (TV movie) Books Goosebumps Things for which children need an explanation: Movie: The Elephant Man Scarlet O'Hara - Gone with the Wind - explanation on the cold-hearted yet beautiful character This is not an exhaustive list, but a gives a general idea of the type of things that can effect young children, including their emotional and psychological development. For some children (and many teens and adults) these can be contributing factors in depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, even eating disorders, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, autism, most other disorders. Study: Objective To test the hypothesis that audible television is associated with decreased parent and child interactions. One clinical study was designed to determine the impact of television on young children with respect to children's language ability. While one might think that the viewing of television would increase a child's ability to understand and speak audible language, the study actually found that for every additional hour that a child was exposed to television, there was a decrease in 770 words (7%) that the child heard from an adult during a recorded session, as well as a reeducation in the number and length of sounds and spoken words by the child with the adult. Audible Television and Decreased Adult Words, Infant Vocalizations, and Conversational Turns - A Population-Based Study, Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH; Jill Gilkerson, PhD; Jeffrey A. Richards, MA; Frederick J. Zimmerman, PhD; Michelle M. Garrison, PhD; Dongxin Xu, PhD; Sharmistha Gray, PhD; Umit Yapanel, PhD. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009;163(6):554-558. What parents can do: 1. Don't emphasize television and movies as a way of life and of entertaining children. 2. Provide fun activities and recreation for children: photo: Microsoft, cannot be reproduced. Recreation for Children - Art Piano lessons for children Field Trips Going to the Park Hiking/Camping 3. Realize that children see "things" on TV - as in sex and violence - when parents aren't at home or aren't supervising. 4. Use parental controls to block PG-13, R-rated and X-rated or near-X-rated context from TV. 5. For younger children and sensitive children, block PG content. 6. Don't assume that because it's rated G it will be suitable for your children. Many G-rated movies are emotionally heart-wrenching for children or have intense of frightening scenes.

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