A house

Family media literacy

Literacy here is not a worksheet. It is the habit of asking what a story is teaching, before it becomes the evening. A family that can ask the question can keep the diet it means to keep.

Three habits

The studies sort a household into three. Pick one. The third line is what to do tonight.

Active mediation

The talk is the question after the story. Researchers who study families, including Amy Nathanson, found this habit does more than the rule alone. A child keeps less of a bad lesson when someone in the room asks what the story rewarded. The meter gives you the question. You still have to ask it out loud.

Tonight. After the ending, ask one question from the eight. Then stop. Do not deliver a sermon.

Eight questions a child can ask

Each one is a measure, said so a child can use it. The grown version is on the rubric.

Who wanted too much, and did the story cheer?

Is appetite put in its place, or is the viewer trained to want more of it?

Excess may appear, and it is not the teacher.

By age

The same story is not the same lesson at five and at sixteen. These floors are this desk's practice. They are not a lab result, and they are not the studio's own label.

The meter

Which measure would you move, and why?

Hand them the score. Ask which measure they think is wrong. A fight about the number is the literacy. What stays off is still the rule, said in daylight, not discovered at midnight on a second screen.

The floor. Temperance still has a floor, at 5. The meter at 50. They may argue the number. They do not set the floor.

Set the range for who is in the room

On, if you sit for the argument

Adolescence78 · temperance 7The rare one that tells the truth about a boy lost in the feed. Sit with it.
East of Eden71 · temperance 5Steinbeck's old question, still the right one: thou mayest.
Midnight Mass73 · temperance 6Faith taken seriously, including the way it curdles. One of the few that earns the argument.
Shogun78 · temperance 7Duty, honor, and a house worth dying for. Not our parish. Very much our standard.

The floor holds. You stay in the room.

Comes off

The Boys36 · temperance 1A fair hate for unaccountable power. Then it becomes the cruelty it hates.
The Wolf of Wall Street16 · temperance 1Scorsese shows the bill. The camera throws the party anyway. Leave it.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon23 · temperance 1Grief dressed up as devotion. A cliff is not courage.

Under the floor for this age. The rule comes first.

Try it on a real title

These are already measured. Pick one. Ask the question that belongs to the low score.

Series · 2021

Gabby's Dollhouse

Right for five. Kind, bright, and finished in a sitting. Stay in the room.

The low measure is Piety, at 4. Ask: What did they treat as holy, or as a joke?

The magic is cute. It is not a creed, and it does not mock one.

Temperance can sit with a child if you stay in the room and ask the question.

Read the whole measure

The findings, and the claims this desk will not make, are on the research. How a person changes is on Character. The number itself is on the Living Meter.