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Beyond the News: TV Violence: Parenting Strategies | Televison
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Well, if we believe that we should use our minds to question the Bible and use our minds to understand our lives, then we should allow our children to see television and make their own decisions about what is seen. If we have done our jobs as parents instilling values in our children they will come to proper conclusions. I think we should give our children more credit for being intelligent and able to discriminate between the bad and good on TV. Their experience of seeing the TV is what makes them stronger in their faith.
Scott K Dolik
Oceanside, CA USA
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I just had to comment that you and your wife have made a wonderful choice. I wish more parents would depart and not conform to the things of this world. And it IS a great thing to see your children enjoy reading and playing games rather than like the T.V. We actually decided to throw the whole thing out! We have been without one for 10 months and it's great. It gives us more time for bible study and family time.
God Bless. Jesus is Lord!
Beyond the News: TV Violence: Parenting Strategies | Beyond the News: TV Violence: Parenting Strategies: re: Pamela
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Pamela, there are laws against bullying in schools. I think it was on dateline or NBC news just this last week of a kid who was teased in school and the school officials did nothing to help him when he complained to them. All they suggested was similar to what your daughter's school said to her, to act tougher. A few years after the kid graduated from high school he sued the school and won just this past week.
Don't let the school bully you. Standing up against bullying makes our schools safer.
Grand Rapids, MI USA
Beyond the News: TV Violence: Parenting Strategies | Other: little thought about TV inmpacts
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Congratulations. I am a 25 yr old graduate student who lived the last two years without a TV and am really OK. My parents, well intentioned, insisted that they buy me one three months ago, although I like the news and enjoy being able to rent movies, it can be a time waster and a distraction. When I told people I didn't have one, they looked at me like I was on another planet.
Cincinnati, OH
Beyond the News: TV Violence: Parenting Strategies | Beyond the News: TV Violence: Parenting Strategies
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When our children were small, they were given specific times/programs to watch. We also monitored their critical viewing capacities, and as they developed, still quite young, we sought to challenge their critical thinking and awareness by engaging the images and audio with questions of 'how did they do that', 'why?', 'do you like that?' 'if you don't like that, what can we do about it?' 'how do you feel when you see/hear this happen on TV?', etc. We discovered that the very young can learn to be self aware, make choices, and when taught to reflect on other points of view, will often, (and most importantly), at the critical moments accept guidance on values applicable to the content of what they are thinking about. Before they can choose between right and wrong, good, better and best. .is the time to train them on 'how' and 'what' and 'why' to choose rightly or well!
Clare Neufeld
Beyond the News: TV Violence: Parenting Strategies | Beyond the News: TV Violence: Parenting Strategies
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Until a year ago our children were allowed one hour of PBS programming per day. About a year ago I offered to buy their allotted hour at the rate of one dollar per day. Over several months they weaned themselves from their expectation of a daily dose of TV. We had not given our children an allowance and this practice has provided a means for them to get money that is dependent on their choices and actions. Each of us is pleased with how this is working. Even high quality educational programming on PBS results in a dulling of creativity and initiative relative to the benefits of playing with each other or friends.
Dannie
Beyond the News: TV Violence: Parenting Strategies | Beyond the News: TV Violence: Parenting Strategies
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I think you might be missing the point. TV is just the tip of iceberg when it comes to societal violence. Certainly monitoring or removing TV from our lives is a step in the right direction, but violence is pervasive. For example, when our daughter was in the 6th grade in public school she was hurt intentionally by another student. This student liked to go through the halls shoving smaller students out of his way. She had the wind knocked out of her when she was pushed up against the edge of a door. We were told by the school office that perhaps our daughter needed to become tougher! She was withdrawn the next day.
Pamela
Beyond the News: TV Violence: Parenting Strategies | Beyond the News: TV Violence: Parenting Strategies
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I made a pact to move it to the far margins of our life after the O.J. Simpson trial pushed us over the brink of sanity. We still keep one, small 14" TV in the house, in a location where it is impossible for a group to crowd around it and sit comfortably, and use it to keep tabs on an occasional sporting event or other rare items which actually has some redeeming value. Our two sons, ages 3 and 6, have grown up with a TV in the center of our family's social space, much differently than my wife and I, who did not. It was just earlier this week when my wife and I commented to each other how wonderful it is that our children gravitate to books and or other games during the evening hours after supper rather than sit themselves down to be passively entertained by a multi-billion-dollar industry trying to sell them all manner of material crap and assorted, bogus values.
Steven
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