How Are the Children?
Program Schedule
2008
P = Podcast
Our passion is to bring good research,information and strategies to
those who care for young children.
How Are the Children? airs on Tuesdays at 1 p.m. EST on Brattleboro Community Radio WVEW 107.7 lp FM and streams at www.wvew.org and BCTV’s Channel 10 audio feed, when available.
Why the name? People of many other cultures greet each other with “How are the children?” The answer indicates the health of the community. We all have this in common.
December
16 Keith Frome, author of How's My Kid Doing?:
Practical Answers to Questions Every Parent Asks About Their Kid's Education
9 The Nurturing Project - A system for bringing resources to early childhood
educators.
Michael Mendizza,co-author with Joseph Chilton Pearce of
Magical Parent, Magical Child Co-founder of Touch the Future
and The Nurturing Project
2 Children and Media Literacy
Touch the Future The Ideas of Joseph Chilton Pearce
Michael Mendizza,co-author with Joseph Chilton Pearce of
November
25 Jean Kilbourne co-author of So Sexy So Soon
Sexualization of Childhood(Rescheduled from 10/07/08)
11 Magical Parent, Magical Child
Rescheduled to December 2
October
28 Spirituality of Parenting
Keith Frome, PhD, author of What Not to Expect: A Meditation on the
21 Blogs and Social Networks for Parents and Families
Amy Jussel of Shaping Youth
Nikki Massaro Kauffman, Caution! May Contain Small Parts
7 Jean Kilbourne co-author of So Sexy So Soon
Sexualization of Childhood (Rescheduled to 11/25/08)
September
30 Storytelling in the Media Age: Presence and Identity
Internationally known storyteller Laura Simms
23 The Play Project: community-based training to empower parents of
autistic children.
16 Gratitude Toward Nature Ceremony- movement and sensation
work with children See the flyer here.
Luz Elena Morey, MA
9 Touch the Future The Ideas of Joseph Chilton Pearce
Michael Mendizza, co-author with Joseph Chilton Pearce of
First in the series of 2nd Tuesday Series
2 Josh Golin, Associate Director,
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Robin Rieske, ACME VT
August
26 Allyson Villars, Executive Director Youth Services, Brattleboro
The No Bystander Movement: A conscious movement
to ensure the physical and emotional safety of our youth
We mentioned the “bystander effect”, also called the “Genovese syndrome”
re: video games “The bystander effect describes how children and adults
who watch a lot of violent entertainment tend to habituate to gradually
increasing amounts ..." Gentile, D Media Violence and Children, p. 23
19 Jerry Carbone, Brattleboro Memorial Library
Blogging, Book downloads, search engines, services
Funding challenges that impact media literacy concerns.
5 Boys to Men Mentoring: John Berkowitz
John Berkowitz 802-869-1778
johnberk (at) vermontel.com
July
15 P Antonio Lopez, author of Mediacology: A Multicultural Approach
to Media Literacy in the Twenty-First Century
and iBrattleboro’s Chris Grotke and Lise LePage
8 Racism and White Privilege:
Tara Echo and Angela Berkfield, students at SIT (World Learning)
and bring their personal and professional perspective to recent
events in Brattleboro
Recommended:
The writings of Tim Wise www.timwise.org
Unpacking the White Privilege Backpack
Lifting the White Veil by Jeff Hitchcock
June
24 Joan Almon, Director of Alliance for Childhood
The implications of heavy “screen time” for young children and their ability
to play.
17 Nancy Carlsson-Paige Ed.D. Professor at Lesley College,
Cambridge. MA
Author of Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids
Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media Saturated, Violence Filled World
10 Brooks Memorial Library Summer Reading Program
Lindsay Bellville, Assistant Children’s Librarian
May
27 Allen Kanner, Ph.D.
Co-founder of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
“Corporate Free Speech: A Progressive Trap” and
Editor: Psychology and Consumer Culture:
The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World, APA
Relevant links:
Commercial Alert “Parents’ Bill of Rights”
On the general issue of Corporations/Democracy/Globalization
International Forum on Globalization www.ifg.org
Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy www.poclad.org
Connection to local Brattleboro people concerned with this topic:
Larry Bloch (802)254-9106 before 9 p.m. or
larrysvt(at)hotmail.com
20 Media as a Health Concern in Early Childhood
Mike Brody, M.D., child psychiatrist
Chair, Television and Media Committee of the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
One of the authors of AAP statement on Children and Media
Dr. Susan Slowinski, Pediatrician in Bellows Falls, Vermont
Reference:
Video Game Addiction.pdf article by Mike Brody, MD
Our Daily Meds by Melody Peterson
13 Frank Baker: Media Literacy Clearinghouse
Resources for Media Literacy K-12
Author: Coming Distractions: Questioning Movies
Cable in the Classroom advertising-free video resources:
April
22 World in Tune - Integrated Curriculum
Creators: Carmela Mercuri and Robin Smith
www.carousel-music.com/tune.html
15 Prevent Child Abuse Vermont
Noreen Lake nlake@pcavt.org
Will be rescheduled: Ms Lake is ill
8 Autism Spectrum -
Support in School and Community
Barbara Saunders, Brattleboro Schools
Public Radio:
Pediatrician: What Parents Should Know About Autism
Autistic Community Seeks acceptance, Not Cures
Speaking of Faith: Being Autistic, Being Human
Vermont Public Television -
Public Square: Living the Autism Maze
Support Groups
Windham County
Vermont Autism Resource Center
Meeting/Support Group
Monthly meetings at the Dummerston Community Center,
W. Dummerston.
For more information, call 802-257-9159 or
e-mail info (at) vtautism.org
1 COaMUNITY.org
Jeanne Marie Southerland, Executive Direcot
Girls Initiate mentoring program
March
25 Diane Levin, author of many books including
“Remote Control Childhood”,
“War Play Dilemma” (with N. Carlsson-Page)
and “So Sexy, So Soon”, coming in August, 2008
Relevant article by the same name
18 Vermont Independent Media
Youth programs: writing lab, youth writing wanted
Media Mentoring Program
Media Literacy in Elementary School (rescheduled
11 Angel Boy Art
Art in the lives of physically and developmentally
challenged children
Sara Vitale, President of Angel Boy Art, Inc.
another source of information, research: www.art-therapy.us
4 Hardy Girls, Healthy Women
Megan Williams, Executive Director www.hghw.org
February
26 Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed. D., author
Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls
From Adversaries to Allies:Curriculum
5 Citizen Journalism and Families
Christopher Grotke, www.iBrattleboro.com
January
22 Storytelling as an instrument of healing
Lorna Czarnota, Buffalo NY
8 Motherhood, Isolation and Worry
Roseanne Weston, former Board Member,
National Association of Mothers Centers
Article on Fear and Silence:
http://www.mothersmovement.org/essays/RWeston0308.htm
1 HAPPY NEW YEAR! Music for Peace
Paulette Meier, conflict transformaiton through music
(c)HealthyMediaChoices 2008