Dr. Rebecca Hains
Author, professor and speaker | Children's media culture, media literacy, and media criticism
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Empower Your Princess-Obsessed Preschooler with Media Literacy in Four Easy Steps! (No, Really.)
How to provide your daughter with valuable, life-long media literacy skills from an early age.
Read MoreWATCH: Rebecca Hains discusses THE PRINCESS PROBLEM on Fox News
FOX 25 News explores “The Princess Problem” with Rebecca Hains.
Read MoreAnnouncing my new book, The Princess Problem!
Rebecca’s new book, The Princess Problem, hits stores Sept. 2. It’s full of powerful strategies to raise media-literate girls who can thrive in a princess-saturated world—and beyond.
Read More“Is my son smart?” “Is my daughter skinny?” Google Searches Reveal Parents’ Gender Biases
According to a recent New York Times op-ed, “Google, Tell Me, Is My Son a Genius?”, parents’ Google search trends teach us a lot about parents’ biases towards their sons and daughters. Specifically, parents tend to search the internet for…
Read MoreRaising Media Literate Children: My Interview on Wisconsin Public Radio
Yesterday, I was a guest on “At Issue with Ben Merens” on Wisconsin Public Radio, an NPR member station. The topic: Raising media literate children. Here’s a brief description and a link to an MP3 recording of the show: It’s part-two…
Read MoreMedia literacy for preschoolers, pt. 4: Tips and resources
This week, I’ve been writing about how parents can help their preschoolers become media literate. [See: Part 1: how media work, Part 2: media content, Part 3: media creation.] For my wrap-up post in this series, I’d like to share…
Read MoreMedia literacy for preschoolers, pt. 2: Thinking critically about media content
As I began discussing yesterday, young children can become media literate with their parents’ help. In today’s media-saturated world, raising media literate children is an increasingly important goal. Our kids need to (1) understand how the media work, (2) be…
Read MoreMedia literacy for preschoolers: Explaining how the media work
Media literacy is a concept that’s often taught in schools–though not often enough, in my opinion. Being media literate means having the ability to think critically about media content, as well as an understanding of how the media work. It…
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