This video-based program trains parents and other child caregivers to engage 3- to 5-year-olds in simple, motivating learning games to strengthen cognitive, social, and motor school-readiness skills. The training materials consist of a manual for training facilitators and a training video demonstrating how to play each learning game with preschool…

Describes efforts of educators, mental health workers, and parents to prepare audiences to view "The Day After," a movie about nuclear destruction and possibility of survival after a nuclear war; wonders why parents aren't always as involved in their children's television viewing; and discusses viewers' reactions to the movie. (MBR)

Ways in which broadcasters can use television research data to promote children's learning are suggested under five headings: cognitive (reading, comprehension, imagination); social and emotional (sharing, sex); violence, aggressions, fears; family roles and attitudes; health issues (alcohol, nutrition, drugs). Information sources for television…

Adapted from a series of 20 monthly columns which originally appeared in Highlights for Children, Inc.'s "Newsletter of Parenting," the material in this booklet explores: (1) ways in which television influences viewers; (2) what television teaches; and (3) some positive aspects of television. It also suggests activities for parents which…

Television can be a source of knowledge and information or it can cause negative behavior. Parents can help their children understand the difference between fantasy and reality on television and help make television viewing a positive event. (DF)