Care providers can help develop visual literacy in school-age children by taking children on trips to local art museums and television stations and by having children produce their own low-cost photographs, color slides, or film strips. Provides detailed directions for making slides from magazine photographs and new film strips from old film. (MDM)

This book is a guide for encouraging critical television viewing skills in children, allowing them to make up their own minds about the power and influence of television. The introduction addresses the importance of television in North America and compares viewing patterns with those in other countries. The text throughout is accompanied by…

This book is a practical, accessible guide for parents on the use of television with children in today's media-focused world. It offers parents practical techniques and strategies to take control of the types of programs and amounts of television their children watch. Parts 1 and 2 of the book contain views on parenting in general and some…