Media and Children |
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| Media and Children |
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| Many adults find it difficult to talk with their children about sex, especially as kids themselves may find it hard. Here are 10 great tips on how to engage your child in formulating approaches to life issues which will inform their whole lives ...more |
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| Trees are incredible but it’s so easy to take them for granted. Without them, life would be very different — there would be no chocolate for a start! We pass trees every day but how often do we really take a close look at them? Close your eyes and picture ...more |
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| The average Australian child watches about four hours of television a day! Videos, computer and Playstation games add to the amount of time children spend staring at a screen. How does all this viewing affect their developing minds?
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| We want the best for our children, so it's easy to think the latest technology of our time will benefit them, but does it?
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| 'It takes a village to raise a child' In the light of some of the events of the past decade, this well-known statement has a poignant, somewhat hollow ring to it. ...more |
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| Dealing with challenging behaviour doesn’t have to be complicated. Here are a few helpful ideas.
Sandra Azar, a Boston-based psychologist, believes there are four main rules for parents to follow if they are to do a ‘good-enough’ job of parenting and the ...more |
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| Gone are the days of dog-eared Playboys under the mattress. The internet exposes young people to pornography of unprecedented extremes. Marnia Robinson and Gary Wilson speak directly to young teens in an article that can support you in your discussion wit ...more |
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| The whole goal seems to be to make marketing almost invisible, a 360 degree wall around a kid, such that where reality starts and marketing begins... becomes ever more obscure and difficult to find, so that the goal is for kids to grow up not seeing the m ...more |
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| I first encountered boredom as a child growing up in a big family in Idaho. In the summers, after chores, my mother would push us out the back door into a seemingly dull landscape of wheat fields and irrigation ditches. 'Find something to do!' she would o ...more |
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| In a well-known education journal, a computer hardware ad depicts an empty classroom, with computers on each desk. Outside in the background is an empty schoolyard. The children are clustered off to one side, faces pressed against the classroom window pee ...more |
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| A review of two books by David Elkind: The Hurried Child and Miseducation – Preschoolers at Risk
Living in modern Australia means that our lives are moving at a blinding rate. The symptoms of this pace are beginning to show up in our children as we attem ...more |
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| In 2003, a study by The Australia Institute revealed alarming information on Australian teens’ exposure to violent and hard-core pornography on the internet. And it wasn’t just the figures that were alarming. The report, entitled Youth and Pornography in ...more |
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| How television affects your opinions, your will and your life.
Think you’re a free thinker? Think again, says Dr. Aric Sigman in an excerpt from his newly released book Remotely Controlled ...more |
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| While modern recreation — television and computer games in particular — stimulates the stress-producing sympathetic nervous system, greenery activates the opposite parasympathetic nervous system, which calms and relaxes us. Greenery can wean us off the ne ...more |
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| There was a time when my three children were television nuts. At any point during the day, you could walk through my house and hear everything from Power Rangers and Rugrats coming from my daughter’s room to heavy metal music and the World Wrestling Feder ...more |
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| What's the best thing you can give your child? ...more |
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