How much is the child's behavior conditioned by media manipulations? What negative effects do video games have on your way of life? How can we fix it?

Educating today means, first of all, being aware. It means understanding how the media produce effects on personality and behavior, and knowing how to understand nature and dynamics is essential to be able to save children from their harmfulness.

Antonella Randazzo with her book Psycho-programmed children offers us essential tools to learn about the persuasive mechanisms of the media, to be able to protect themselves and to protect our children and to help them adequately to have a harmonious and balanced emotional and social growth.

Much research has shown that TV and video games are not healthy pastimes but they do influence the child, who is unwittingly trained and manipulated to develop a certain type of personality.

Powerful means that determine significant social transformations so much so that many pedagogues and educators express concerns about the strong media conditioning to which the child is subject.

The power of the media is perceived as highly invasive and violent, particularly for the vulnerable emotionality of children. Consumerism has manipulated the minds of our children so much that the issue has now become social: children rely on each other to get what they want.

Parents , in responding to excessive requests for the purchase of harmful products, have a moral obligation to refuse to make them happy at all costs. Prohibitions are necessary. Educating them in active and positive methods such as reading a book or playing outdoors can be a great remedy for passivity and stimulation of their creativity.

Author: Antonella Randazzo