Jennie Nelson

“Parents who daily read Robert Lewis Stevenson to their children and surrounds them with blocks, plastic animals, and some cardboard boxes or kitchen pots and pans are going to produce a qualitatively different child from those who spend that time on TV or videos, even if their choices ARE only Winnie the Pooh and Mr. Rogers.”
― Diane Medved, Saving Childhood

“A child with minimal video and TV exposure... might be more naive about social ills but at the same time more sophisticated in inner direction, self-discipline, and the realities of her actual physical world.”
― Diane Medved, Saving Childhood

“Kids need quantity time: the myth that a small amount of focused attention is just as good simply because it's labeled quality is merely a means to rationalize being away.”
― Diane Medved, Saving Childhood

“The components of innocence - security, a sense of wonder, and optimism- are not just throwaway by-products of the ignorance of youth.”
― Diane Medved, Saving Childhood