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Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
www.commercialfreechildhood.org
Action Coalition for Media Education
National Institute on Media and the Family
Media Education Foundation
Meme Films
Mediocracy
The Lamp
One of the most alive media literacy organizations around.
Mothering Magazine
articles by Josh Golin and Rob Williams on Media and children
The Center for the New American Dream
Media Awareness Network (Canada)
In Windham County, Vermont
Resources: Books, Media Education Foundation films
Essential Books
Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children Television, and the First Amendment. by Newton N. Minow and Craig L. LaMay
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. by Neil Postman
Buy Buy Baby by Susan Gregory Thomas
Can't Buy My Love by Jean Kilbourne is the paperback edition of Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising, published in hardback in 1999.
Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble about Language, Technology and Education by Neil Postman (New York: Knopf, 1988)
The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don't Think by Jane Healy, M.D.
Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential... by Joseph Chilton Pearce (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992)
Failure To Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds--And What to Do About It by Jane Healy , M.D.
Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls, by Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D.
Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children from Birth to Age Five
by Lisa Guernsey
Magical Child by Joseph Chilton Pearce.
Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes. by Sharon Lamb, Ed.D. and Lyn M. Brown, Ed.D.
The War-Play Dilemma by Nancy Carlsson-Paige & Diane E. Levin War Play Dilemma:
Balancing Needs and Values in the Early Childhood Classroom, Teachers College Press, republished 2006
Who's Bringing Them Up? Television and... by Martin Large (UK: Hawthorne Press, 1980)
Parent Resources and Advocacy
Dads and Daughters is the national, nonprofit membership organization of fathers and daughters. DADs provides tools to strengthen father-daughter relationships and to transform the pervasive cultural messages that value daughters more for how they look than for who they are. www.dadsanddaughters.org
Family and Home Network is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1984, supporting and advocating for parents who forgo or cut back on paid employment in order to spend generous amounts of time nurturing their children. www.FamilyAndHome.org
Hardy Girls, Healthy Women support organizations, schools, communities, providers, parents and girls in their efforts to change the culture from one that values girls and women on how they look to one that recognizes girls and women for who they are and what they contribute to the world. Their curriculum “From Adversaries to Allies: A Curriculum for Change” is a must for those working with girls and young women www.hardygirlshealthywomen.org
The Motherhood Project an initiative of the Institute for American Values, is to put the importance of motherhood on the national agenda and to foster a renewed sense of purpose, passion, and power in the vocation of mothering. www.motherhoodproject.org
The National Association of Mothers' Centers (NAMC) addresses the needs of mothers through a network of programs that offers information and support, breaks the isolation of motherhood, advances maternal health and well-being, and recognizes the importance of mothers to society. www.motherscenter.org
TRUCE (Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children’s Entertainment) produces and provides an annual guide for teachers and parents to help them in selecting toys that are educationally and developmentally appropriate for young children. www.truceteachers.org
The Center for Screen-Time Awareness (Formerly TV-Turnoff Network) encourages children and adults to watch much less television in order to promote healthier lives and communities. www.tvturnoff.org
Publications
Mothering magazine helps families establish their own unique parenting traditions and make informed choices that consider the needs of all family members. Every publication addresses contemporary, evidence-based issues focusing on pregnancy, birth options, breast feeding, attachment parenting, vaccination and childhood illness, child and teen advocacy, alternative health and education, the environment, nutrition, and the deeper issues of parenting. www.mothering.com
New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams - produces media for every girl who wants her voice heard and her dreams taken seriously and for every adult who cares about girls. www.newmoon.org
Stay Free! is a print magazine focused on issues surrounding commercialism and American culture www.stayfreemagazine.org
