Video Games
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– General Information –
A Parents’ Guide to Video Games, Parental Controls and Online Safety
Description: An informational guide for parents about choosing age-appropriate games, setting up parental controls, and making sure their child’s video game experience is safe and secure.
Choose my Plate Blast Off Game
Description: An interactive computer game where kids can reach Planet Power by fueling their rocket with food and physical activity. Fuel tanks for each food group help students keep track of how their choices fit into MyPyramid. Helps to teach children how to make good choices in food and physical activities.
Description: This website allows parents and educators to review media including applications intended for use by children.
Description: This report discusses the effects of violence in our media on children and also the marketing of these violent programs to children.
Media and Young Children Action Guide
Description: This action guide provides information for parents, caregivers, and teachers about the impact of media violence on children's behavior. Facts about how racial, gender and other stereotypes can be promoted in media. Also includes suggestions on talking to children about media messages. Additional resources are provided.
Media in the Lives of Young Children 
Description: This Hot Topic page provides information on media and young children. It includes
resources on how much time children are engaging with media, identifies potentially negative impacts of media use, highlights educational use of media, and gives helpful suggestions for parents to use when making decisions and supervising children using various media.
Media Violence and Children Action Guide
Description: This action guide provides information for parents, caregivers, and teachers about the impact of media violence on children's behavior. Facts about media use by children is provided as well as suggestions for what you can do to protect children from media violence.
Media Violence in Children's Lives
Description: National Association for Education of Young Children (NAEYC) position statement on protecting our children from violent programming, television, movies, media etc. It is the responsibility of the parents and public policy officials to protect children from such violence.
Description: This handout provides information for parents, caregivers, and teachers on the impact of TV viewing on children's development. Facts about kids and TV are provided along with suggestions on what you can do to support healthy development.
Author: Buchanan, Audrey
Description: Violent media can take many forms, ranging from television programming and movies to video games and other interactive activities. This study examines a number of these different media formats. Previous studies of the impact of media violence on childhood aggression have been limited by a focus on physical forms of aggression, which tend to be more common among boys. Accordingly, little is known of the impact of media violence on aggression in girls.
This study expands upon previous research by examining subtypes of aggression in relation to violent media. In particular, research has established relational aggression as a point of contrast with physical forms of aggression (see Crick et al., 1999, for a review). Children who spread rumors, exclude peers, and engage in other relationship-oriented aggression are different than those who simply hit or kick to aggress against another.
– Professional Development –
Media Violence in Children's Lives
Description: National Association for Education of Young Children (NAEYC) position statement on protecting our children from violent programming, television, movies, media etc. It is the responsibility of the parents and public policy officials to protect children from such violence.
– Programming Resource –
Media Violence in Children's Lives
Description: National Association for Education of Young Children (NAEYC) position statement on protecting our children from violent programming, television, movies, media etc. It is the responsibility of the parents and public policy officials to protect children from such violence.
– Research –
Description: This report discusses the effects of violence in our media on children and also the marketing of these violent programs to children.
Author: Buchanan, Audrey
Description: Violent media can take many forms, ranging from television programming and movies to video games and other interactive activities. This study examines a number of these different media formats. Previous studies of the impact of media violence on childhood aggression have been limited by a focus on physical forms of aggression, which tend to be more common among boys. Accordingly, little is known of the impact of media violence on aggression in girls.
This study expands upon previous research by examining subtypes of aggression in relation to violent media. In particular, research has established relational aggression as a point of contrast with physical forms of aggression (see Crick et al., 1999, for a review). Children who spread rumors, exclude peers, and engage in other relationship-oriented aggression are different than those who simply hit or kick to aggress against another.