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Tv-Proof Your Kids: A Parent's Guide to Safe and Healthy Viewing
If you are concerned about the time your kids spend watching TV, and the lessons they learn from it, but aren't convinced that throwing out the TV set or programming a V-chip are effective solutions, you'll find the answers and the help you need in this enlightening, practical book.
Media literacy expert Lauryn Axelrod has taught thousands of children, parents, and educators how to turn TV watching into a positive activity. In TV-Proof Your Kids she provides an easy-to-implement, kid-friendly program to help you take an active role in your children's TV education and teach them the skills they need to view TV selectively and critically. Parents will discover how, with a minimum of time and energy, to end family battles over TV and expose advertising tricks, combat negative stereotypes and values, fight violence without a V-chip, handle teen TV challenges, choose appropriate shows, movies, and videotapes, use the same techniques for videos, computer games, and the Internet.
With TV-Proof Your Kids you can ensure that TV doesn't harm your children - and turn TV watching into a fun, conflict-free family activity.
Media literacy expert Lauryn Axelrod has taught thousands of children, parents, and educators how to turn TV watching into a positive activity. In TV-Proof Your Kids she provides an easy-to-implement, kid-friendly program to help you take an active role in your children's TV education and teach them the skills they need to view TV selectively and critically. Parents will discover how, with a minimum of time and energy, to end family battles over TV and expose advertising tricks, combat negative stereotypes and values, fight violence without a V-chip, handle teen TV challenges, choose appropriate shows, movies, and videotapes, use the same techniques for videos, computer games, and the Internet.
With TV-Proof Your Kids you can ensure that TV doesn't harm your children - and turn TV watching into a fun, conflict-free family activity.
272 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1997
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About the author
Lauryn Axelrod
2 booksLauryn Axelrod is an ordained Interfaith/Interspiritual minister, chaplain, spiritual director and teacher. A graduate of One Spirit Interfaith/Interspiritual Seminary, she is also the founding Spiritual Director of Three Mountains Interspiritual Community. Lauryn is the author of Ten Words: An Interspiritual Guide to Becoming Better People in a Better World, writes the Substack newlsetter, “Radical Spirituality: Getting to the Root of What Matters,” and leads retreats and workshops virtually and in-person.
Known for her deeply informed, down-to-earth, no-nonsense style, Lauryn is passionate about the profound wisdom at the heart of all spiritual truth while helping others live a spiritually-centered life of peace, purpose and joy in an ever-changing world.
Known for her deeply informed, down-to-earth, no-nonsense style, Lauryn is passionate about the profound wisdom at the heart of all spiritual truth while helping others live a spiritually-centered life of peace, purpose and joy in an ever-changing world.
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