Your Children Are under Attack : How Popular Culture is Destroying Your Kids' Values, and How You Can Protect Them

Now it is a voracious beast of materialism, celebrity and excess that shapes those values to meet its own greedy needs. Every day your children are bombarded with sexually explicit music, violent movies and video games, shock radio, Internet chat rooms...the list goes on and on. You know this onslaught hurts your kids, and you want to do something to protect them. The reality is that your children's defense against popular culture starts inside your home-with you!

Jim Taylor, PhD, has worked with young people, parents, and educators for twenty years. He has been a consultant and frequent speaker to numerous elementary and secondary schools, youth-sports programs, and performing-arts organizations around the country. Dr. Taylor received his bachelor's degree from Middlebury College and earned his master's degree and PhD in psychology from the University of Colorado. A former alpine ski racer who competed internationally, Dr. Taylor is a 2nd-degree black belt in karate, a marathon runner, and an Ironman triathlete. Dr. Taylor is the author of five books, including Positive Pushing: How to Raise a Successful and Happy Child (Hyperion, 2002). He has published more than four hundred articles in scholarly and popular publications, and has given over five hundred workshops and presentations throughout North America and Europe. Dr. Taylor has appeared on NBC's Today Show, ABC's World News This Weekend, UPN's Life and Style, and major television network affiliates, and has participated in many radio shows. Dr. Taylor has been interviewed for articles that have appeared in Family Circle, the Christian Science Monitor, Parents, the Miami Herald, the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, and the Baltimore Sun, and many other newspapers and magazines. For more information, please visit www.drjimtaylor.com.