- The Big Turnoff: Confessions of a TV-Addicted Mom Trying to Raise a TV-Free Kid by Ellen Curry Wilson (2007)
- Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture by Juliet Schor (2004)
- Consuming Kids: Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing and Advertising by Susan Linn (2005)
- Kid Stuff: Marketing Sex and Violence to America’s Children by Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti (2003)
- Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes by Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown (2006)
- Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence by Lt. Col Dave Grossman and Gloria Degaetano (1999)
Videos
- Media Education Foundation: Fantastic source of educational videos www.mediaed.org
Web Sites
- Adbusters Magazine: An ad-free critique of consumer culture and the machine that drives it www.adbusters.org
- Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood: Fantastic advocacy for children www.commercialfreechildhood.org
- Center for Media Literacy: Empowerment though education www.medialit.org
- Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use: Current information by Nancy Willard www.csriu.org
- Center for Screen Time Awareness: Sponsors Turn Off TV Week www.tvturnoff.org
- Media Education Foundation: Challenges media using powerful videos on a wide variety of topics www.mediaed.org
- Media Literacy: Resources for advancing media education www.medialiteracy.com
- Media Literacy Clearinghouse: A Web site for K-12 educators www.frankwbaker.com
- New Mexico Media Literacy Program: Fantastic resources on media literacy programs www.nmmlp.org
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Hi! I’m Dr. Kathy. Welcome to my website! Although Family Empowerment Network is formally closed, we want to keep these resources available to you. Our belief is that parents are the most wise and intuitive about what is best for their children. However, parents sometimes need the support of effective, timeless, compassionate parenting information and strategies. On this website you will find our three parenting books on boys, girls, and kids’ social lives and ten years of monthly newsletter articles. In addition, a powerful, under-recognized resource is the support of other parents. Here you will find how to use our books as discussion guides for monthly self-led parenting groups. One last resource: I am still available to give talks and workshops.
