Violence in the media affects your child's development

Published: April 14, 2008, 4:00 am

Tags: matt damon, media violence, nancy carlsson paige, nancycarlsson paige, taking back childhood, takingbackchildhood, violence in the media and child development, violenceinthemediaandchilddevelopment

Filed under: Business, Child Development, Health and Safety, Lifestyle, Television, Books, Video Games, In the NewsNancy Carlsson-Paige wants to open up dialog about how violence in the media affects healthy child development, even while her son, Matt Damon, has starred in some of the most violent movies the media has produced in the past few years. Carlsson-Paige teaches early education at Lesley University, and is the author of the newly released book "Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World." She began to look at the way violence was changing childhood in the mid 1980's when teachers began reporting that the boys in their classrooms were acting "more aggressively." The mother of two sons, Carlsson-Paige and colleague Diane Levin surveyed teachers in 19 states and found that the phenomenon was nation wide. The cause? "The Federal government had lifted limits to allow marketing to children on television."

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