Recommended web pages

There are some useful and helpful websites that dedicated to the theme “advertising and children”. One of them is Don’t Buy It that offers information about advertising tricks, some useful links to other web pages with different articles about ads and kids. Also in the part “Buying Smart” you find some tips how to be critical or think critically about ads by asking yourself questions such as “How do the actors using the product look? Do you think the product could make you happy or popular?”. In addition, the web page is very colorful and has nice and funny design that makes it more interesting not only to adults but also to children to visit and search.

Another good web page is MediaWise from National Institute on Media and the Family. There you can find latest news, research, and facts about everything that related to media including Advertising and Children. Parents can participate in discussions with other parents; get free parent guides if they click the section Get Involved. Different videos, useful tips and advices are offered in this web page.

Children meet with advertising everywhere and all the time that make them very vulnerable to commercials appeals. This exposure to commercials is harmful for children, but we can lessen ads influence through active participation in explaining the main purpose of commercials to children. We would like to recommend the web page PBS Parents that is created to help parents better communicate with their kids. Parents can find there information how help their children to avoid stress in learning new skills such as reading or writing, to develop creativity in children and make them to be interested in eating healthy food. In the part Issues and Advice is section Children and Media, parents can find good tips how to educate children of different ages be more conscious about advertising and its appeals. Also there parents can select the age of their child and find more information how to make child more media savvy in the particular stage of development.