Raising Media Savvy Kids:

A Common Sense Workshop

Windrush School

Multipurpose Room

March 22, 2007

7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

On average, kids spend more time using electronic media than they do with parents or in school.  While teens and tweens gravitate to YouTube, MySpace, iPods and IMs, their younger siblings are already adept consumers of video games, TV shows, and DVDs.  Media has truly become the “Other Parent” in our children’s lives.

Kids know how to access multiple forms of media for entertainment, information, and communication, but they need guidance on how to use media wisely. Common sense parenting skills can help kids become active and critical consumers of the media messages they see, hear, and read every day.

The Windrush Parent Association sponsors this event, offered free of charge to parents, guardians, educators, and community leaders. The workshop is presented by Rebecca Randall of Common Sense Media, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to improving kids’ media lives by providing the information & tools necessary to understand the impact of media on children’s development, and to raise a generation of media savvy kids.

RSVP by email:  connect@windrush.org or call: (510) 970-7580 x 303.