Parenting: What & When: Ten Tips for Better Family Entertainment
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The Catholic Communication Campaign suggests the following ways you and your family can make better choices in what you watch on television, hear on the radio, reach on the internet or read.
- Log the time you spend with television, video games, the internet, magazines, newspapers, and radio. Is it time well-spent or just passing time?
- Look for Christ in TV shows, movies, and song lyrics. Discuss which values are Christian and which are not.
- Call or write your station manager to applaud or show your dissatisfaction with - TV programming.
- Trade a TV Show for a trip to the library once a week.
- Use the week's headlines for a current events discussion in your home.
- Expand your reading choices by subscribing to more than one newspaper or magazine, including your local Catholic paper.
- Set guidelines for which movie and video ratings our family will allow before going to the theater and video store.
- Consult your Catholic paper for more in-depth movie reviews by the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting. For a Catholic review of current movies, check out www.usccb.org/movies.
- Choose a room at home for TV and video games, so other rooms are 'retreats' for reading, music, and other activities.
- Practice what you preach - if you limit your children's TV viewing, limit your own, too.
Adapted from the Catholic Communication Campaign through the Office for Publishing and Promotion ervices, United States Catholic Conference (USCC).