Hold the date! On May 7, BJCWF is proud to sponsor a talk by Dr. Diane Levin, Professor of Education at Wheelock College and co-author of “So Sexy So Soon,” which talks about the media barrage and offers some advice about how to deal with it.Are you concerned about the media’s sexualization of childhood? About what our kids and grandkids see and hear and read every day?
Event will be May 7, 2009 from 8 – 9:30 AM at Temple Reyim, Newton
Invitation to follow.
Please check out the review from Publisher’s Weekly below.
"The authors accuse the media of sexualizing children. Constantly, American children are exposed to a barrage of sexual images in television, movies, music and the Internet. They are taught young that buying certain clothes, consuming brand-name soft drinks and owning the right possessions will make them sexy and cool—and being sexy and cool is the most important thing. Young men and women are spoon-fed images that equate sex with violence, paint women as sexually subservient to men and encourage hooking up rather than meaningful connections. The result is that kids are having sex younger and with more partners than ever before. Eating disorders and body image issues are common as early as grade school. Levin and Kilbourne stress that there is nothing wrong with a young person's natural sexual awakening, but it is wrong to allow a young person's sexuality to be hijacked by corporations who want them as customers. The authors offer advice on how parents can limit children's exposure to commercialized sex, and how parents can engage kids in constructive, age-appropriate conversation about sex and the media."
