Parenting Well in a Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Human [Paperback]

Gloria DeGaetano (Author), Diane Dreher PhD (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2004

This illuminating investigation takes a fresh look at the role of media in children's lives. An overview of the formidable challenges parents face and creative ways to overcome them are included, as are strategies for turning a home environment from "high-tech" to "high-touch." Moving beyond demonizing the media, this work, like none before it, articulates the difficulties of parenting in our depersonalized society. It offers hopeful alternatives for all parents wanting to protect children from, and teach children about, media's impact.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Offers powerful strategies to help today's parents raise their children with greater literacy, emotional intelligence, and academic success, building healthier, happier families."  —Dr. Diane Dreher, associate dean of arts and sciences, Santa Clara University

"DeGaetanto's book helps parents understand the latest research on media use, its implications for child development, and what they can do about it."  —Suite101.com

About the Author

Gloria DeGaetano is the founder of the Parent Coaching Institute and the author of Screen Smarts: A Family Guide to Media Literacy and Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie, and Video Game Violence. She lives in Bellevue, Washington. Diane Dreher, Ph.D., is the author of The Tao of Personal Leadership and associate dean of arts and sciences at Santa Clara University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Personhood Press (June 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932181121
• ISBN-13: 978-1932181128
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #770,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why allow the media to raise your children?, September 14, 2008

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H. Barnes "Dede Barnes" (Cottonwood, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Parenting Well in a Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Human (Paperback)

Gloria De Gaetano has done a wonderful and resourceful job of informing parents in her book "Parenting Well in a Media Age," to the impact of the media on today's families. Parents need to know the impact that the media has on their child's brain development and their social and emotional well being. The media has captured this society. The media has developed into a huge change agent, and parents need to know how to deal with the consequences. Gloria keys into the Vital Five things that parents need in order to help their children develop into the most productive members of society. Every parent should have this resource in their personal library.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential for Parenting in a media culture, February 21, 2005

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Michael J. Danielson "Mr. D." (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Parenting Well in a Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Human (Paperback)

Not only is this book accessible and fascinating, it provides the in depth research and analysis the average parent needs but never has the time to do.

If your kids watch TV, have Gameboys, do the Xbox or live in the US during the 21st Century, this book will help tremendously! Read it yourself, then give it to your kids' teachers! The brain research information alone will inspire and enlighten them!

As a teacher myself, I can see the impact of the media on the students with whom I work. This book will help me as both a parent and a teacher.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What every parent or person that cares about children should know., September 18, 2008

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Ruth Williams "Ruth Williams" (Kirkland, WA) - See all my reviews
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Gloria DeGaetano has done an outstanding job of explaining the impact of the media on our childre. She specifically discusses how the developing brain is impacted, directly affecting children's development. But, she gives us hope by describing exactly what parents and educators can do to provide the things that all children need to develop their potential and grow up to be creative and healthy people. This book is pertinent to families and children from all cultures and backgrounds. I am a special education teacher and a mother of two. I have worked with children and their families for 26 years. If you can only read one parenting book, make it this one!