The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsFlicking Out On Reality
I think it's pretty bad when parents quickly switch channels on the tv or turn off the tv when they're watching a show and don't want their kids to see. Now, kids shouldn't see everything their parents watch, but I'm talking about shows like documentaries on cults, serial killers and rapists because typically these programmes don't have any violent scenes in them (at least, much milder scenes than what their cartoons and video games display).
Sheltering kids is sure to do more damage than if they were to watch it. Most documentaries are even rated PG and the parents flip out and change the channel.
When your kids join a cult later in life not knowing any better, history will be repeating itself; and you, as a parent, will be part of the problem. But, then again, I guess you're entitled to making baby Mansons and the women he manipulated.
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My mother used to flip the channel when two people kissed on TV. Even if they were a married couple.
Boy, did she send us down the wrong path with that one...
Posted by: PG | September 28, 2005 12:45 PM
Have you ever heard people try to explain away really violent stuff in movies to really little kids?
"That's... spaghetti!"
"No, he's not killing her, they're just... having rough sex."
Then you're just like, screw it, Goonies is on the other channel, and then it turns out to be the scary part of Goonies, and the kid freak out?
Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Dave Munger | September 28, 2005 05:30 PM
Commercials are what get me. Sometimes I leave the TV on during dinner, well hell, almost ALL the time, and switch it to the news to listen to and I'm really sick of hearing about yeast diseases and herpes and hemmorhoids and menstrual pain etc while I'm eating. I guess I could always just shut it off and watch later newscasts but damn! do I really want to hear about it at a later date?
Posted by: Diane | September 28, 2005 08:00 PM