Kindred's media and children articles

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• Computers in Early Childhood Education - A jump start or a setback?
  We want the best for our children, so it's easy to think the latest technology of our time will benefit them, bu…
• Breaking out of the Box
  The average Australian child watches about four hours of television a day! Videos, computer and Pla…
• Cultural Renewal: Revitalising Youth Futures
  'It takes a village to raise a child' In the light of some of the events of the past decade, this well-known sta…
• Image: the Fantasy of Reality
  The whole goal seems to be to make marketing almost invisible, a 360 degree wall around a kid, such that where re…
• Four Keys to Managing Difficult Behaviour in Children
  Dealing with challenging behaviour doesn’t have to be complicated. Here are a few helpful ideas.Sandra Azar, a …
• Whole Again: Our Family after Television
  There was a time when my three children were television nuts. At any point during the day, you coul…
• Weapons of Mass Induction
  Books in this article & Think you’re a free thinker? Think again, says Dr. Aric Sigman in this e…
• Weapons of Mass Induction - Plant Power
  Published in Kindred 22 as part of Weapons Of Mass Induction While modern recreation — televisio…
• A Call of the Wild - Feel the Trees: A back-to-nature activity
  See 'A Call of the Wild'. Trees are incredible but it’s so easy to take them for granted. Without…
• The Hurried Child Syndrome
    A review of two books by David Elkind: The Hurried Child and Miseducation – Preschoolers at Risk Living …
• Teens, Screens and Technology Creep
  In a well-known education journal, a computer hardware ad depicts an empty classroom, with comp…
• Wishing You a Happy & Ethical Birthday
  We were having an animated and excited conversation about the looming birthday of my youngest child…
• The P**n and Violence link
  In 2003, a study by The Australia Institute revealed alarming information on Australian teens’ ex…
• How to talk with your teenage boy about p**n
  Books in this article & Gone are the days of dog-eared Playboys under the mattress. The internet e…
• 10 Tips for Talking with Kids about Tough Issues
    Published In Kindred, Issue 24 as part of Teenagers and Sex: Are they ready? Raising a child is probably the …
• Real Kids in an Unreal World: Building Resilience and Self Esteem in Today's Chaotic World
  Book by Author (The following is an extract from the book, Real Kids in an Unreal World: Building Resilien…
• What's Behind the Need to Compete as Mothers?
  Books in this Article How Cultural Conditioning Blinds Us to Joyful Mothering (This interview with D…