Adolescents, Children and Parents

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


Adolescents and the Media. Strasburger, Victor and Hogan, Marjorie (eds).

American Academy of Pediatrics: Committee on Communications

APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls Report, American Psychological Association, 2007.

Beacon Street Girls (Literature that helps build self-esteem for girls ages 9 to 13).

Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. Schor, Juliet B. New York: Scribner, 2004.

Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers. Quart, Alissa. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2003.

Buy, Buy, Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds. Thomas, Susan Gregory. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Buy Me That! A Kids' Survival Guide to TV Advertising and Buy Me That Too. Available from The Center for Media Literacy.

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC)

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Center for Commercial-Free Public Education

Center on Alcohol Marketing to Youth

Center on Media and Child Health

Common Sense Media

Consuming Kids: Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing and Advertising. Linn, Susan. New York: Anchor Books, 2005.

Dads and Daughters

Dads and Daughters: How to Inspire, Understand, and Support Your Daughter When She is Growing Up So Fast. Kelly, Joe. New York: Broadway Books, 2002.

Daughters: For Parents of Girls (A bimonthly newsletter and online forum).

Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood. Hughes, K. Wind and Wolf, Linda (eds.). Stony Creek, CT: New Society Publishers, 1997. (Includes an interview with Jean Kilbourne).

Full Mouse, Empty Mouse . Zeckhausen, Dina. Atlanta, GA: Eating Disorders Information Network, 2003. (A book for grade school children with a companion curriculum).

Generation MySpace: Helping Your Teen Survive Online Adolescence. Kelsey, Candice. New York: Marlowe & Company, 2007.

GirlForce. (National health and fitness program for preteen and teenage girls)

The Girls' Guide to Life. Dee, Catherine. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 2005. Available from Empowering Books for Girls.

How to Say It to Girls: Communicating with Your Growing Daughter. Gruver, Nancy. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 2004.

"The Influence of Media Violence on Youth". Psychological Science in the Public Interest, A Journal of the American Psychological Society, Volume 4, Number 3, December 2003.

Living Outside the Box: TV-free Families Share Their Secrets. Broke, Barbara. Spokane: Eastern Washington University Press, 2007.

LoveU2 (A curriculum for adolescents on building healthy relationships). Pearson, Marline F.

Media, Sex and Health: A Community Guide for Professionals and Parents. Rademacher, Kate H. Chapel Hill, NC: The Women's Center (2007).

The Merchants of Cool: A Report on the Creators and Marketers of Popular Culture for Teenagers. (Produced by PBS for Frontline in 2001. Available with a teacher's guide).

The Motherhood Project

Mother Power. Plumez, Jacqueline Hornor. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2002.

National Institute on Media and the Family

New Moon: A Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams. (For and mostly by girls ages 8 to 12).

Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes. Lamb, Sharon and Brown, Lyn Mikel. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006.

Parent Corps

Parents Against Junk Food

Personal Quests & Quandaries: Coming of Age in the 21st Century. Hotchkiss, Carol W. Gilsum, NH: Avocus Publishing, Inc., 2004.

The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids. Madeline Levine. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

Prime-Time Teens: Perspectives on the New Youth Media Environment (2004). (Click link for PDF report).

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. Pipher, Mary. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004.

Sex Discussed Here! (Lectures and trainings about sex and relationships)

Smokescreeners. (An educational program to take the glamour out of smoking in movies).

Speaking and Listening from the Heart: Facilitator's Handbook
(Available from the Teen Talking Circles Project)

Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies & Alcohol. (A film about drinking on college campuses by Jackson Katz and Jean Kilbourne).

SPONGEHEADZ: U & Media. Ziegler, Lynn. Bothell: Book Publishers Network, 2007.

Teen Futures Media Network

Teen Talking Circle Project

Teen Voices (A magazine by and for teenage girls).

Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers. Riera, Michael. Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts, 1995.

Underage and Overweight: Our Childhood Obesity Crisis - What Every Family Needs to Know. Berg, Francie. Long Island City, NY: Hatherleigh Press, 2005.

Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy. Anderson, Craig A., Douglas A. Gentile, and Katherine E. Buckley. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Voices: A Program of Self-Discovery and Empowerment for Girls (ages 12-18) (A facilitator's guide for running groups and a journal for the girls. Available from www.stephaniecovington.com ).

Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen. Walsh, David. New York: The Free Press, 2004.

A World of Possibilities: Coming Into Her Own (A Girl's Journey to Inner Strength and Outer Purpose). (A radio series available on CD that includes interviews with Susan Bailey, Upala Devi Banerjee, Jean Kilbourne, and Sara Shandler).