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Raising Media-Healthy Kids with Common Sense Media CEO James Steyer

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco -- Kanbar Hall (3200 California St. San Francisco, CA 94118)
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As the amount of media that kids consume has risen over the past few decades, so too has the prevalence of unhealthy and risky behaviors that kids learn from the media, including aggression, obesity, substance abuse and unsafe sexual behavior. In a lecture at Kanbar Hall, Common Sense Media CEO James Steyer offers practical tools for combating these negative effects.

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Chef Gabrielle Hamilton (Blood, Butter and Bones) in Conversation

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Gabrielle Hamilton discusses her well-reviewed 2011 best-seller, Blood, Butter and Bones: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef with Barbara Lane. Chef/owner of the renowned Prune restaurant in New York City, Hamilton traces her unconventional journey to the top of the culinary food chain with prickly honesty and humor. The story starts out at a rural Pennsylvania farm watching her elegant French mother prepare meals, continues through a rough adolescence in New York, an eye-opening trip to Europe and beyond, which ingrained in her the link between cooking, comfort and kindness. Learn More

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<p>Young children today inhabit an environment saturated and shaped by a complex "mediascape" that envelops and bombards them day and night.  As the amount of media that kids consume has risen over the past few decades, so too has the prevalence of unhealthy and risky behaviors that kids learn from the media, including rising levels of aggression, obesity, substance abuse, and unsafe sexual behavior. Common Sense Media CEO James Steyer reveals the impact media can have on young children's health and development and offers practical tools for combating negative effects. </p>

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