Media and Children

Photo: Joshua Minso ♦◊♦ Today thousands of Australians are celebrating that K-Mart and Target have stopped selling the viciously violent…

Does Time Magazine Have, er... Attachment Issues?  Sooner or later, it had to happen. The parent-guilt monster is out of its cage: it has been awakened,…

How Cultural Conditioning Blinds Us to Joyful Mothering (This interview with Dr. Zucker is from the authors of the new book, Good Enough is…

A few months before our son was born, my husband and I made the decision to get rid of our TV. Neither one of us considered ourselves addicted to TV the way…

(The following is an extract from the book, Real Kids in an Unreal World: Building Resilience and Self Esteem in Today’s Chaotic World by Maggie Dent.)…

Published In Kindred, Issue 24 as part of Teenagers and Sex: Are they ready? Raising a child is probably the…

In 2003, a study by The Australia Institute revealed alarming information on Australian teens’ exposure to violent and hard-core pornography on the internet.…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU Gone are the days of dog-eared Playboys under the mattress. The internet exposes young people to pornography of…

We were having an animated and excited conversation about the looming birthday of my youngest child. She was about to turn five and we were talking,…

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…