Parenting Well in a Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Human

Gloria DeGaetano has done an outstanding job of explaining the impact of the media on our childre. She specifically discusses how the developing brain is impacted, directly affecting children's development. But, she gives us hope by describing exactly what parents and educators can do to provide the things that all children need to develop their potential and grow up to be creative and healthy people. This book is pertinent to families and children from all cultures and backgrounds. I am a special education teacher and a mother of two. I have worked with children and their families for 26 years. If you can only read one parenting book, make it this one!

Gloria De Gaetano has done a wonderful and resourceful job of informing parents in her book "Parenting Well in a Media Age," to the impact of the media on today's families. Parents need to know the impact that the media has on their child's brain development and their social and emotional well being. The media has captured this society. The media has developed into a huge change agent, and parents need to know how to deal with the consequences. Gloria keys into the Vital Five things that parents need in order to help their children develop into the most productive members of society. Every parent should have this resource in their personal library.

Not only is this book accessible and fascinating, it provides the in depth research and analysis the average parent needs but never has the time to do. If your kids watch TV, have Gameboys, do the Xbox or live in the US during the 21st Century, this book will help tremendously! Read it yourself, then give it to your kids' teachers! The brain research information alone will inspire and enlighten them! As a teacher myself, I can see the impact of the media on the students with whom I work. This book will help me as both a parent and a teacher.

This book has me so excited! I couldn't put it down! I have read books dealing with similar content before, but Gloria DeGaetano puts forth a careful presentation of what EVERY parent must be aware of, both for the sake of their own children and their children's children.If you love your children, you will get and apply the knowledge found throughout this book! I have seen the lives of my own children transformed through the better understanding I have gained through Ms. DeGaetano's wisdom. I'm buying it for every single one of my friends who have children of all ages!

This is the question DeGaetano brings to our minds with an impact worthy of a knock-out punch. Surrounded and manipulated by an immense media and corporate conglamorates, our children are drowning in a sea of inconsistency and confusion. DeGaetano comes through with solutions and guidelines to return parenting control to the rightful parents. Thank God for her insight and concern for all of us!