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The
television series Parent Connection premiered on Wisconsin Public
Television on October 30, 1996.
VHS copies of all the programs may be obtained through:
NEWIST/CESA #7
IS 1040
UW-Green Bay Campus
2420 Nicolet Drive Green Bay, WI 54311
Phone
(920) 465-2599
Fax
(920) 465-2576
E-mail:
newist@uwgb.edu
For transcripts, send a stamped, self addressed envelope; for VHS copies
send a blank VHS tape and $10.00
Contact WPT with any comments
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THE
PROGRAMS
Series
programs are broadcast every other month on the six Wisconsin Public
Television stations and on WMVS, Channel 10, in Milwaukee. Print materials,
including a complete parent guide for each program, are available
through newist@uwgb.edu or
through any County Extension Office in Wisconsin.
THE CONCEPT
Parent Connection has been modeled after, and is presented
as a companion to, Wisconsin Pubic Television's BI-monthly Teen
Connection series. As Teen Connection presents teens talking
with teens about teen issues, Parent Connection features parents talking
with parents, including viewers participating via toll free phone
calls, about their common issues, problems and situations.
The series does not offer recipe formulas for resolving particular
situations; it's a forum for discussion, observation and the sharing
of opinions and experiences. The mission is not to prescribe simplistic
behavioral and philosophic analyses and solutions, but to frame common
issues and offer a variety of perspectives on those issues.
The objective is not to define parenting skills and modalities, but
to examine what parenting is in the eyes of disparate examiners.
The goal is to identify general and specific obstacles to positive
parenting in today's culture and then explore reasonable, practical
strategies for dealing with those obstacles.
THE FORMAT
Like Teen Connection,
the core of this series is a studio setting with a host and several
guests appearing live to present and discuss the topics identified
for each program.
Viewers with call-in questions and comments are also a featured ingredient
of the live format. Surrounding and framing those elements are pre-taped
comments, observations, stories, etc., from parents and children about
their personal experiences in their respective roles, both negative
and positive, both resolved and unresolved.
Guests on the programs, both live and pre-recorded, are chosen from
Wisconsin's full ethnic, social and economic spectrum. |
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