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HOW CAN YOU CONTROL WHAT YOUR FAMILY SEES ON TV?


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Taking Charge of Your TV
Learn four easy steps to turn your family's television viewing into a positive and educational experience.
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Parental Control Tools

Media Literacy Resources

More Chills Than Thrills (National PTA)
http://www.pta.org//parentinvolvement/helpchild
/oc_morechills.asp


Media Literacy Resources (National PTA)
http://www.pta.org//ptacommunity/medialiteracy.asp

Guidelines for Family Television Viewing (Family Education Network)
http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,45-23816-0-1,00.html

What Television Teaches Kids (Family Education Network)
http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,45-9416,00.html?relinks

Taking Charge of TV (Family Education Network)
http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,45-23815,00.html?relinks

Tips for Picking Good TV Shows (Family Education Network)
http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,45-171,00.html?relinks

Critical Television Viewing Skills (Media Literacy Clearinghouse)
http://www.med.sc.edu:1081/critical_tv_viewing.html

Talking with Kids about the News (Talk With Your Kids)
http://www.talkingwithkids.org/television/twk-news.html

Talking with Kids about TV (Talk With Your Kids)
http://www.talkingwithkids.org/television/tv-as-a-tool.html

TV Parental Guidelines (Keepkidshealthy.com)
http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/treatmentguides/tvguidelines.html


Educational Programming

Family-Friendly Programs (National Cable & Telecommunications Association)
http://controlyourtv.org/DetailPage.php?PageID=22


Technical Controls

Parental Controls (National Cable & Telecommunications Association)
http://controlyourtv.org/section.php?SectionID=2

TV Channel Blocking (FCC)
http://www.fcc.gov/parents/channelblocking.html


Ratings

Ratings (FCC)
http://www.fcc.gov/parents/tvratings.html


General

Parents Television Council - Because Our Children Are Watching (Parent's Television Council)
http://www.parentstv.org

Parent's Place - TV Ratings, TV Channel Blocking, Limiting Commercials, etc. (FCC)
http://www.fcc.gov/parents





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