TRUCE Action Guides
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2011-2012 Toy Buying Guide *NEW*
This annual review helps parents choose toys that promote healthy play and avoid toys that undermine it. In this age of technology, media and marketing to children, it is especially important to make informed toy choices.
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Toys, Play & Young Children Action Guide
Play is essential to children's healthy development and learning. Children use play to actively construct knowledge, meet social/emotional needs, and acquire life skills. The content of their play comes from their own experiences.
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Infant & Toddler Play, Toys & Media Action Guide
You want to provide your little one with experiences that will enhance healthy play and development. This guide will help you understand why quality play is vital for your child’s growth and what you can do to support it. (Second Edition)
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Media & Young Children Action Guide
TV, DVDs, computers, video games and other electronic media are a powerful force in children's lives. Shows, advertisements and the toys and other products linked to the media influence most aspects of children's development, learning and behavior.
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TV and Your Child
DID YOU KNOW that children who watch a lot of TV and movies tend to: perform worse in school, be more overweight, act the way TV characters act and see ads that are harmful to them?
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