This booklet touches on many topics related to child care consumer education for parents. The booklet begins by defining child care consumer education, discussing this education as a way to provide parents with child care information to assess their needs, locate services, evaluate quality, and choose the best possible care for their children. The…

A closer look at television commercials helps children to analyze and discriminate. (Editor)

Describes a cooperative extension program involving the Pennsylvania Cooperative Extension Service, a fabric company, and six retail stores. (AN)

An analysis of four instructional packages as possible additions to an ongoing educational program, and possible consequences of their adoption and use in a variety of curriculums. (Author)

The Consumer's Union's Staff Information Center is a library operation vitally integrated with its users, and comes on with a sense of poised energy that makes you feel a lot of things are possible after all in this world. (Author)

A program to make adolescents aware of the pitfalls of making purchases without due caution is described. (CK)

The combination of consumer mathematics and economics has the potential to make a sizable contribution in preparing students to become effective consumers. Students must understand economic as well as mathematical concepts, and consumers need to adapt to changing economic conditions and life styles. (JOW)

To teach money management effectively, an examination of credit use today and a profile of the person in financial trouble are needed. If credit patterns and bankruptcy are understood, recommendations can be made about curriculum content for money management. (SK)

To show a variety of possible instructional options, the consumer education programs of seven high schools are briefly described. Six of the descriptions concern specific course offerings, the seventh cites a teacher's resource center for consumer education in Philadelphia. Addresses and contact persons are listed. (SJL)

Household meal planners (n=1,498) were surveyed. Characteristics of those who perceive nutrition to be important in food shopping were as follows: black, female, higher education level, nonworking, and/or urban. Results could guide design of nutrition information and food marketing programs. (SK)

A sample of 78 (of 320) home gardeners use rules of thumb (heuristics) to choose between chemical pesticides and nonchemical alternatives. Pesticides rank low in 24 choice attributes where alternatives rank high, and vice versa. Gender, age, and years of pesticide use correlate with pesticide selection. (SK)