Monitoring - This category describes how closely parents monitor what their children watch or listen to. Alternative Activities - This category describes the number of alternatives to electronic media in which a family's children participate. The Media Quotient Family Media Inventory contains more than 120 questions. Below are several sample questions and responses. If you answered Often or Sometimes to this question, you may want to consider turning on the TV only when you have first determined that something is worth watching.
Research shows that children and adults exposed to media violence become desensitized to it.
They show reduced physiological response and are also less likely to seek help for real victims of violence. Research shows that in laboratory studies, rats who play in complex environments build more brain cells than rats who observed other rats playing. Active engagement produces more brain growth than watching others in active engagement. With your children, gather one or more family photo albums, several catalogs and magazines, construction paper or poster board, scissors, and glue or tape. Ask your children why we take photographs of things.