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| Description: |
| 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 articulates the difficulties of parenting in a depersonalized society. It offers hopeful alternatives for parents wanting to protect children from, and teach children about, media’s impact. |
Author Biography: |
| Gloria DeGaetano is a best-selling author, popular speaker, and the founder and CEO of The Parent Coaching Institute. The Parent Coaching Institute offers parent couaching services to parents nationwide, along with a graduate training program for educators and counselors wanting to become certified parent coaches. To learn more, please visit www.thepci.com
Other books by DeGaetano include: |
Reviews/Endorsements: |
| “Gloria DeGaetano 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.
“Gloria DeGaetano confronts the most important questions about the long-term impact of media immersion and provides common sense answers that concerned parents will appreciate. She has made an important contribution to a crucial discussion tha too many families try to avoid.” “Whether you are a new parent, an old parent or not a parent at all, if you ar concerned about incivility, consumerism, and violence in modern society you need to read this book. If you are not concerned, you really need to read this book.” |
