Tv Time: 150 Fun Family [Paperback]

Debra K. Traverso (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1998

Today's parents have a good reason to be concerned about both the quantity and quality of the TV programs their children are watching. Now TV TIME offers creative, "take charge" methods that enable parents to use television to help their children grow. Instead of turning parents into TV police or kids into TV addicts, this guide gets children actively involved in managing their TV choices with easy-to-play games, dialogues, mind-teases, and memory quizzes. Television time becomes not play fun, but educational, with ingenious ideas that will entertain, inform, and stir a child's imagination and creativity--

Intriguing, interactive games that foster alertness while programs are in progress.

Fun-filled TV-inspired projects a child can do before and after viewing.

Video ventures that inspire expanded learning adventures at the library or bookstore.

Challenging TV games that improve vocabulary and spelling.

Activities kids can do on their own or with other children.

Before-and after-show fun that encourages independent thinking.

Mind-expanding, TV-sparked discussions that bring the whole family together.

AND MUCH MORE!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

DEBRA KOONTZ TRAVERSO is a former journalist who has tested and retested activities on her own extended family. She's also spent time as a public relations specialist, a college instructor, and a crisis management consultant. She's co-founder and vice president of a management consulting firm headquartered near Washington, D.C., and she's been published in the Baltimore Sun, Farm Journal, Public Relations Journal, and Economy magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 217 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380797186
• ISBN-13: 978-0380797189
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,389,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars TV brings our family together thanks to this book, May 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Tv Time: 150 Fun Family (Paperback)

I'm a single mom with three kids. I work two jobs and take care of an invalid mother. As a result, my kids see a little too much TV for my comfort. With my busy schedule, I needed some way that I could let the kids watch TV without having to be there to monitor every moment, and a way that wouldn't require much of my time. This is it. I spend less than 5 minutes with it each day challenging my kids with a TV project, and I'm set to go do what I want. My hats off to the author for finding a way to use TV to actually bring us all together.

5.0 out of 5 stars My kids love it, May 11, 2000

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This review is from: Tv Time: 150 Fun Family (Paperback)

This book is great! My kids love it. I find the activities for older teenagers (15 and up) a little impractical for my kids, but they actually enjoy helping the younger ones since the projects are creative and involve TV. So either way, my kids are actually doing things together and learning! Thank you! Finally my TV is harnessed.

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and useful!, May 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Tv Time: 150 Fun Family (Paperback)

I found TV Time to be very practical. At first I thought it might be another book that assumes I have a craft store in my house, but no. Not much is necessary beyond cardboard, paper, crayons, pencils, books, and the usual stuff you find in every house with a child in it.