MEDIA EFFECTS
Television
  • Watching educational programs such as Sesame Street (with or without parental supervision) increases children's vocabulary, letter and number knowledge, and positive attitudes toward school (but effects are most robust for children ages 2 to 4)

  • Watching prosocial television shows such as Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, in combination with adult guided, supportive activities, increases children's prosocial behavior
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  • Legislation to increase the amount of educational and prosocial programming for children

  • Educate parents on the positive and negative influences of television

  • Encourage adults to explain the actions and motivations of television characters to young children (this can increase children's prosocial behavior and reduce children's aggressiveness when viewing prosocial and violent shows, respectively)

  • Parental monitoring of children's television viewing, and adult modeling of good television viewing habits
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    Video and Computer