Make a Media Plan
- Healthy Kids.org “How to make a family media use plan” and “Family Time Family Pledge“
- Media History Form from the AAP
- Screentime Toolkit from the Minnesota Department of Health
- 3 Simple Rules for a Healthy Media Diet and Common Sense Tips for a Healthy Media Diet from Common Sense Media
- Read the questions and options to consider in the article, “How is Technology Affecting Your Family?” from A Place to Turn To
- Family Online Safety Contract from FOSI
- “Top 10 Ways to Reduce Watching TV at Home” “Ideas for Family Meals” “Ideas to Keep you Moving” from the University of Washington Center for Public Health Nutrition
- We Can! Family Guide (Page 53-57) from the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- How to set up a media use plan for your family from Foundations Family Counseling
- Screen time cards
- Sample Plan 1
- Sample Plan 2
- Sample Plan 3
- Sample Plan 4
- Sample Plan 5
Organizations
- Common Sense Media Homepage, Recommendations, Video Reviews, “Making Sense” Parent Blog, Digital Citizenship Curriculum
- Healthy children.org Media Page, Media Plan Overview
- PBS Kids Online and Digital Nation
- Parent Further
- Edutopia: Resources for parents
- Family Online Safety Institute
- Center on Media and Child Health – Ask the Mediatrician
Books
The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age by Catherine Steiner-Adair and Teresa Barker
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by danah boyd
The Information Diet: a Case for Conscious Consumption by Clay Johnson
Research
- Parenting in the Age of Digital Technology from the Center on Media and Human Development, School of Communication, Northwestern University
- Children, Health, and the Media: Report and Fact Sheet Series and The Media Family: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers and Their Parents from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Learning at Home: Families’ Educational Media Use in America and Families Matter: Designing Media for the Digital Age from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center
- Zero to Eight: Children’s Media Use in America and Social Media, Social Life: How Teens View Their Digital Lives from Common Sense Media
- From the American Academy of Pediatrics: The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds Media Use by Children Younger Than 2 Years Children, Adolescents, Obesity, and the Media Children, Adolescents, and the Media The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families Media Education
- Survey of Internet and At-risk Behaviors from the Rochester Institute of Technology
