Sunday, January 14, 2007

How TV Influences Your Kids (Anderson)

I appreciate how this writer points out that parental involvement with television watching can stop negative behaviours, and if parents discourage aggressive behaviour their kids won’t be like the majority of aggressive children who watch too much violent TV. Parents should be a part of their children’s lives, absolutely.

Young children like the toddler described in the article can be easy to monitor TV consumption and prevent aggression, but I would say teens resist this type of authority and will find a way to view pornographic crime-glamourizing music videos and gory restricted movies and in turn be affected by this cultural influence.

The truth is that TV pop culture will be out of the parent’s control, although they’d like to think censorship keeps kids from harm, when it really makes it more desirable. That’s what I think anyway.

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