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TITLE: “Parenting for the Digital Age: The Truth Behind Media’s Effect on Children, and What To Do About It”
Children are a major target of today’s media marketers. So in middle-age, Bill Ratner went back to college and pioneered a program in the Los Angeles public schools to educate children about the major purpose of TV and the internet—to sell.
In his new book, “Parenting for the Digital Age: The Truth Behind Media’s Effect on Children, and What To Do About It“, Bill chronicles his life in an advertising family which led the him to become one of the most popular voices in America on TV Cartoons, games, movie trailers, and commercials. But having children caused him to stop and ask: What do we do about all the electronic media coming into our kids’ lives? Children are a major target of today’s media marketers. So in middle-age Bill went back to college and pioneered a program in the Los Angeles public schools to educate children about the major purpose of TV and the internet—to sell.
This book is a valuable guide for parents on how to view, teach, and control today’s new media and technology available to children. Come along for the fascinating, funny, and sometimes scary ride in Parenting for the Digital Age.
ABOUT BILL RATNER
Bill is one of America’s premier voice actors on movie trailers, documentaries, video games, audio books, and TV cartoons, and he is an eight-time winner of The Moth Story Slams and a two-time Best of Hollywood Fringe Festival Extension honoree for solo performance. His stories are featured on National Public Radio programs Good Food, The Business, and Strangers from KCRW’s Independent Producer Project.
Ratner is co-author of Sentient Books Secrets of Voiceover Success. His personal essays and short fiction are published in The Baltimore Review, Blue Lake Review, WolfSinger Press anthology Metastasis, The Amor Fati, Pleiades, Southern Anthology, Spork, NiteBlade, National Cheng Kung Literary, audio essay in The Missouri Review, Papier Maché Press, TV Marquee, and Coast Magazine.
