Why TV is bad for children resources

[aelfie]

This keeps coming up in various discussions...and I am tired of having to keep looking all this up...so I'm putting it here under tags so I can find it!

Some mainstream materials (books)
The plug in drug by Marie Winn
Four Arguments for the elimination of Television by Jerry Mander
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv

Articles from Waldorf Resources
TV and Childrens Minds by Dr. Susan Johnson MD
http://www.devdelay.org/newsletter/articles/html/249-tv-and-childrens-minds.html
TV and ADD by Dr. Foster Cline (creator of Love and Logic)
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/GW3305.pdf
Cries of Conscience by Nancy Forer
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/GW4009.pdf
Beyond Cognition by Eugene Schwarts (Master Waldorf Teacher)
http://www.waldorflibrary.org/Journal_Articles/GW4009.pdf
Culture of Untruth: Media and the Waldorf Student by Eugene Schwartz (audio lecture)
http://millennialchild.com/Resources/podcasts.html

Comments

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

you and I really *do* need to talk.

[aelfie.livejournal.com]

well...gimme a ring this week. See if we can't manage to go out for coffee or something...

[mollygm.livejournal.com]

Who do you keep having to discuss this with? Are there really pro-tv parents out there? LOL!

[aelfie.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, there are. There are a LOT of people out there who are pro-TV and can't understand why you wouldn't watch it.

I give this stuff out on the yahoo waldorf groups...people keep needing ammo for telling their spouses/ex-spouses/relatives/in-laws why they don't have a TV and why to not show TV to their kids.

[mollygm.livejournal.com]

I see. See, I'm not pro-TV. I KNOW TV is bad. But, yeah, like Micky D's, it's not going anywhere anytime soon. I could see if you were trying to convince someone you lived with to get rid of it, though. That'd be a fight.

[mollygm.livejournal.com]

Oh! I read this article I want you to read! (I was reading article #1 and it was talking about the importance of nature.) It was in "Working Mother" and this chick writes an article about how kids really DON'T need nature and we're all being guilted into camping by backwards nut-jobs. It's hilarious! I'm like, you're really ANTI-nature??? LOL!!