Posts Tagged ‘media habits’

Back to School: Kids and Media

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Whether your kids have already started school or the opening day is next week, now’s the time to make smart media rules and put your child on the path to school success.
And sometimes, we don’t give their impact much thought.  TV, the Internet, videogames, music…all play significant roles in how we spend our time.  To set [...]

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Crossing the digital divide

This item was filed under [ Digital Media, News, Parenting, Teenagers ]

This month, the Nielson Company released a report called How Teens Use Media. The report provided a snapshot of the role media plays in the lives of U.S. teens today. In many ways, the report debunks the idea that teens are too busy engaging in new social media to engage in traditional media or the [...]

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Teacher finds School Success Tied to Parents Saying “No”

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I recently received an interesting letter from a middle school math teacher.  A few years ago this teacher did an informal survey of his students.  He wanted to find out how many of his students had TVs in their bedroom and other media habits.  What he found correlated with the national average: approximately 2/3 of [...]

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