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I was most struck with the information about what happens to us physically when we watch television. The very act of watching itself, without reference to content, changes the way our brains operate. I recommend this to all teachers, parents, and broadcast journalists.
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As I approached the end of the book one paragraph compelled me to do some outside research and analyze Ms. Winn's book. The quotation that initiated these actions is:"The poor socialization of children today has surely contributed to the exodus of mothers from the home... But it does not seem unlikely that the increased willfulness, demandingness, and disagreeableness of undisciplined children make a life of staying home seem less appealing than the drabbest, most routine office job so many women choose in exchange.And television may be involved in the parental flight from children in yet another fashion. For in spite of the fact that parents seek to escape their children because they have brought them up to be difficult to live with." Page 201-202 With this paragraph, Ms. Winn makes a fascinating conclusion - women are leaving the workplace because their children are disagreeable because they watch too much TV? As valuable as Ms. Winn's view of society is the book would have been more believable after reading this paragraph had it cited more statistics from educational studies. Surely the government or universities or one of the numerous national foundations have funded studies on this.
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If I ever suspected that television was an incidious pest (especially to children), this book confirms it! Reading it as an adult, I've recognized myself in much of what Ms. Winn has to say about the effects of television on the developing mind. This book has changed my life, and it will (hopefully) change yours!
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This is the classic book on how television affects our children and families. Just think about how children really learn and how families should interact.
Although this book was originally written closer to the dawn of television in our culture, things really haven't changed much.
Ms. Winn had a great perception early on about how harmful television would be to children and their families. Check it out or better yet buy it from Amazon while you are here.
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