It’s not that parents love their children less than in generations past. It’s that they no longer receive consistent societal support for the belief that parenting is their highest priority…TV messages championed rather then detracted...

Parents who daily read Robert Lewis Stevenson to their children and surrounds them with blocks, plastic animals, and some cardboard boxes or kitchen pots and pans are going to produce a qualitatively different child from...

A child with minimal video and TV exposure… might be more naive about social ills but at the same time more sophisticated in inner direction, self-discipline, and the realities of her actual physical world.