{"id":891,"date":"2007-10-29T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T14:02:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-29T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T14:02:02","slug":"the-smart-television-alliance-says-good-tv-exists-use-it-to-educate-and-entertain-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2007\/10\/the-smart-television-alliance-says-good-tv-exists-use-it-to-educate-and-entertain-your-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smart Television Alliance says good TV exists.  Use it to educate and entertain your kids."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group in D.C. is increasing awareness of quality children&#8217;s programming by educating parents and caregivers about good choices for television.  The <cite>Smart Television Alliance<\/cite> doesn&#8217;t encourage kids to watch more TV &#8211; its goal is to help you find shows that are educational and entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>The group says:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The problem isn\u2019t the amount of television watched, but the content your kids may be seeing.  And two-thirds of children have televisions in their bedrooms.  If you\u2019re not watching with them, how do you know what they\u2019re watching?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good TV exists although there&#8217;s plenty of bad television &#8211; and opportunistic commercials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smarttelevisionalliance.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=thesolutions_main\" target=\"_blank\">Smart Television Alliance<\/a> offers solutions to finding educational and entertaining programming:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watch TV on your own schedule.  Get a Tivo or DVR and record shows.  Watch the shows with your kids, and skip through commercials.<\/li>\n<li>Let your kids learn from TV.  Educational TV can improve young children&#8217;s language development and general school readiness. <\/li>\n<li>Find programming that relates to school topics, family events, and current issues.<\/li>\n<li>Sign-up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smarttelevisionalliance.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=getinvolved_newssignup\" target=\"_blank\">Smart News<\/a> e-newsletter for bi-weekly children&#8217;s programming recommendations.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group in D.C. is increasing awareness of quality children&#8217;s programming by educating parents and caregivers about good choices for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1398,695],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Smart Television Alliance says good TV exists. 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