Unexpected News Media: Child-Based Discussions
Unexpected News Media: Child-Based Discussions
Least expected information is disarming. Children feel it too.
Least expected information in any situation is disarming. Today, many Americans are waking up to unexpected news.
Information from various media outlets disseminated for some time a
particular candidate would carry the majority of support over the course
of the November 8 evening. Many families may have spoken at length
matter of factly about the predicted inevitable unfoldings as both
legitimate and logical, often without question. Surprise.
Processing information from news media can be both surface and complication. "Surface" in that messages carry information for the most part in a simple manner, efficiently understood by the bulk of consumers. "Complicated" in that results of major events may not meet the expectation of predictability or household feelings. Screen time processing with young children in the mix can be confusing for them as well as parents who are at a loss at where to begin the conversation. Keep in mind there are ramifications on background television as it relates to parent-child interactions, executive function processing, or language acquisition (Lavigne, Hanson & Anderson, 2015; Nathanson et al., 2014; Pempek, Kirkorian, & Anderson, 2014; Tomopoulos, et al., 2014; Krenn, 2015).
Even if your kids are not directly in front of the television this morning, you may be for it is hard to turn it off as the searching for answers of explanation begins.
Encourage children to talk about what they have viewed/heard either in the foreground or the background. The term "scary" may come up today. Pearce & Field (2015) completed a meta-analysis of the effect of “scary TV” on young children. “Scary TV” is defined “as anything that has evoked a fear response (Pearce & Field, 2015; Krenn, 2015). Researchers predicted that "scary TV" would have a greater impact on younger children because they are less able to regulate their emotional responses and found support to uphold that children under age ten might be more likely to be particularly vulnerable to scary TV. The authors also note that scary TV may effect “internalized emotions.” However, more needs to be known about what and why this happens along with giving the best advice to a parent's or parents' particular child. Advice dispensing remains difficult as all children come to the world with an infinite set of variables growing and developing in various environments (Pearce & Field, 2015; Krenn, 2015). However, perhaps we can look to news media processing for some support.
For assistance, we can look to Lang, Potter & Grabe (2003) who developed a set of rules that could be applied to local news stories to make them easier to process and remember. By taking some of their themes in how news is processed, some commentary on each step may assist educators and caregiver's begin to interpret recent events that stand out this morning
Processing information from news media can be both surface and complication. "Surface" in that messages carry information for the most part in a simple manner, efficiently understood by the bulk of consumers. "Complicated" in that results of major events may not meet the expectation of predictability or household feelings. Screen time processing with young children in the mix can be confusing for them as well as parents who are at a loss at where to begin the conversation. Keep in mind there are ramifications on background television as it relates to parent-child interactions, executive function processing, or language acquisition (Lavigne, Hanson & Anderson, 2015; Nathanson et al., 2014; Pempek, Kirkorian, & Anderson, 2014; Tomopoulos, et al., 2014; Krenn, 2015).
Even if your kids are not directly in front of the television this morning, you may be for it is hard to turn it off as the searching for answers of explanation begins.
Encourage children to talk about what they have viewed/heard either in the foreground or the background. The term "scary" may come up today. Pearce & Field (2015) completed a meta-analysis of the effect of “scary TV” on young children. “Scary TV” is defined “as anything that has evoked a fear response (Pearce & Field, 2015; Krenn, 2015). Researchers predicted that "scary TV" would have a greater impact on younger children because they are less able to regulate their emotional responses and found support to uphold that children under age ten might be more likely to be particularly vulnerable to scary TV. The authors also note that scary TV may effect “internalized emotions.” However, more needs to be known about what and why this happens along with giving the best advice to a parent's or parents' particular child. Advice dispensing remains difficult as all children come to the world with an infinite set of variables growing and developing in various environments (Pearce & Field, 2015; Krenn, 2015). However, perhaps we can look to news media processing for some support.
For assistance, we can look to Lang, Potter & Grabe (2003) who developed a set of rules that could be applied to local news stories to make them easier to process and remember. By taking some of their themes in how news is processed, some commentary on each step may assist educators and caregiver's begin to interpret recent events that stand out this morning
