Simplicity Parenting (40 page)

1.
Nancy Gibbs, “The Magic of the Family Meal,”
Time
, June 4, 2006.

2.
Alex Cohen, “Michael Pollan: If You Can’t Say It, Don’t Eat It,” National Public Radio, April 24, 2008.

3.
Eric Schlosser,
Fast Food Nation
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), 54.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Gibbs, “The Magic of the Family Meal.”

6.
Po Bronson, “Snooze or Lose,”
New York
, October 8, 2007.

7.
Ibid.

1.
David A. Kinney, Janet S. Dunn, and Sandra L. Hofferth, “Family Strategies for Managing the Time Crunch,” Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life, September 5, 2000.

2.
Claudia Wallis, “The Myth About Homework,”
Time
, August 29, 2006.

3.
Elkind,
The Power of Play
, ix.

4.
Walter Kirn and Wendy Cole, “What Ever Happened to Play?”
Time
, April 30, 2001.

5.
Katharine Rosman, “BlackBerry Orphans,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 8, 2006.

6.
Tim Arango, “Social Site’s New Friends Are Athletes,”
New York Times
, March 26, 2008.

7.
Jeannine Stein, “Kicking It Up a Notch,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 22, 2007.

8.
Laura Hilgers, “Youth Sports Drawing More Than Ever,”
CNN.com
, July 5, 2006.

9.
Bill Pennington, “Doctors See a Big Rise in Injuries for Young Athletes,”
New York Times
, February 22, 2005.

10.
Frank Brady, “Children’s Organized Sports: a Developmental Perspective,”
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance 75
(February 2004).

11.
Janice Butcher, Koenraad J. Lindner, and David P. Johns, “Withdrawal from Competitive Youth Sport: A Retrospective Ten-Year Study,”
Journal of Sport Behavior
25 (2002).

12.
Josephson Institute,
What Are Your Children Learning? The Impact of High School Sports on the Values and Ethics of High School Athletes
, 2006.

Chapter Six: Filtering Out the Adult World

1.
Robert Putnam,
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 222.

2.
Victoria J. Rideout, Donald F. Roberts, and Ulla G. Foehr,
Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-Olds
(Menlo Park, Calif.: Henry Kaiser Family Foundation, 2005), 46.

3.
Marie Evans Schmidt, David S. Bickham, Brandy E. King, Ronald G. Slaby, Amy C. Branner, and Michael Rich, Center on Media and Child Health,
The Effects of Electronic Media on Children Ages Zero to Six: A History of Research
(Menlo Park, Calif.: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2005), 1.

4.
American Academy of Pediatrics, “Media Education Policy Statement,”
Pediatrics
104 (1999), 341–43.

5.
Christine Ollivier, “France Bans Broadcast of TV Shows for Babies,” Associated Press, August 20, 2008.

6.
Dade Hayes,
Anytime Playdate: Inside the Preschool Entertainment Boom
(New York: Free Press, 2008), 56.

7.
Alissa Quart, “Extreme Parenting,”
Atlantic Monthly
, July/August 2006.

8.
Alice Park, “Baby Einsteins: Not So Smart After All,”
Time
, August 6, 2007.

9.
Schmidt et al.,
The Effects of Electronic Media on Children Ages Zero to Six
, 1.

10.
Elizabeth A. Vandewater, Victoria J. Rideout, Ellen A. Wartella, Xuan Huang, June H. Lee, and Mi-suk Shim, “Digital Childhood: Electronic Media and Technology Use Among Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers,”
Pediatrics
118 (May 2007).

11.
Rideout, Roberts, and Foehr,
Generation M
, 23.

12. American Academy of Pediatrics, “Children, Adolescents, and Television,”
Pediatrics
107 (February 2001), 423.

13.
Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi, “Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor,”
Scientific American
, February 2002.

14.
Victoria Clayton, “What’s to Blame for the Rise in ADHD?,” MSNBC, September 8, 2004.

15.
Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens,
The Mind of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life
(New York: Jossey-Bass, 2005), 112.

16.
American Association of Pediatrics, “Joint Statement on the Impact of Entertainment Violence on Children,” July 26, 2000.

17.
Dave Grossman and Gloria Degaetano,
Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence
(New York: Crown, 1999).

18.
Nicholas Carnagey, Craig Anderson, and Brad Bushman, “The Effect of Video Game Violence on Physiological Desensitization to Real-life Violence,”
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
43, July 2007, 489-96.

19.
Daniel G. McDonald and Hyeok Kim, “When I Die, I Feel Small: Electronic Game Characters and the Social Self,”
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
, 45, Spring 2001, 241-58.

20.
Jane Healy,
Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds—for Better and Worse
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998).

21.
John Markoff, “Joseph Weizenbaum, Famed Programmer, Is Dead at 85,”
New York Times
, March 13, 2008.

22.
Rideout, Roberts, and Foehr,
Generation M
, 46.

23.
Ibid., 16.

24.
Ibid., 46.

25.
Steve Farkas, Jean Johnson, and Ann Duffett, “A Lot Easier Said Than Done: Parents Talk About Raising Children in Today’s America,” Public Agenda, 2002.

26.
Bob Livingstone, “The Media-Parent Connection: Overplaying Fear—How It Hurts and What We Can Do About It,”
www.boblivingstone.com
.

27.
J. Veitch, S. Bagley, K. Ball, and J. Salmon, “Where Do Children Usually Play?: A Qualitative Study of Parents’ Perceptions of Influences on Children’s Active Free Play,”
Health & Place
12:4, 2005, 383-93.

28.
Maia Szalavitz,
“Today
Show Revises Number of Missing Kids Downwards,” STATS Organization, George Mason University, March 9, 2006.

29.
Kay Randall, “Mom Needs an A: Hovering, Hyper-Involved Parents the Subject of Landmark Study,”
www.utexas.edu
, March 26-April 2, 2007.

30.
Susan Gregory Thomas,
Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007).

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