Quote From: arm521What are the kids watching/playing? I know, first hand, how infuential tv can be...
When I noticed I could watch, without visceral response, a child be "assaulted" on fictional program, but that I cringe and look away when an animal gets hurt, I realized I had become callused to violence on tv and in movies.
How much more influential must the mesmerizing video games be, with their battles, and guns, and shoot 'em up themes?
I am not a parent, but as a teacher I see the changes in childeren in my classes.
Parents, open your eyes and BE PARENTS.
I'm only 25 year olds, i was raised watching alot of stuff most shouldn't ever watch. I wasn't a out of control child. But I cant watch a child be assaulted and not get mass amount of angry at those people that are hurting a child. I can sit and watch a horror movie, but I feel stuff all through it. I grow up on playing doom, at the age of 9, never made me think violence wasn't real or made me callused to that fact. I am a NRA member and carry a weapon with me, I have been shooting since I was 7 years old. I didn't start taking martial arts until I was an adult, but I plan to put my son in it as soon as they allow it. I don't believe TV is the problem, if anything is the problem is not talking to your child about the programs they watch. My mother always talked to me about a movie or a show that she might of felt needed to be explained.
My niece was one of those out of control children, starting at the age of about 2, you know what music, tv, movies, and games had nothing to do with it. She had a mental problem which now at 10 years old, she is on controlled drugs for it, she is happy and doesn't like to cause people pain. And you know what my sister would spank her and that didnt help my niece would even laugh and runaway and hit someone seconds later. Parents with these "out of control" children are at the wits end and they fear the problem isn't the child but themself. My sister blamed herself and it took my mother telling her get your daughter into the doctors something is really wrong this isn't normal. Sometimes it is the parents fault, but its not always the parents fault. I cant say about this family, for I havent watched anything really about it yet, but I will be back one it airs.