Who influence the Child’s Character Most - Parents or Teachers or Friends? »
Posted By WikiMap 6 months, 1 week ago in NewsIn the baby boomers generation this was very easy to see. Parents were the greatest influence. There were only three TV channels is those days and only family shows were on. No sex, bad language and little violence was observed on the screen.
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lloydm656 months, 1 week ago
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Not all TV.Total trash TV is. MTV,BET,lead the pack.They should be on pay for view.I didn't,and still don't allow it in my home,My grand daughter said I was mean.Today she four children,and does not let them watch it.By the way she is the only democrat in the family.I believe Obama will bring her around.
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tehranchik6 months, 1 week ago
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I want my MTV.
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quackpot6 months, 1 week ago
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There is no need to prohibit these programs; the kids will experience them soon enough regardless.
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One only needs to provide a better venue of love, kindness, understanding, challenge and fun: not a difficult task for people who love their kids as human beings.
With a good set of core values, nearly all kids can view these programs for what they are: entertainment
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Candida6 months, 1 week ago
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FTA: "In the baby boomers generation this was very easy to see. Parents were the greatest influence."
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Whoever wrote this either doesn't remember the 60s and 70s, or is has reshaped history to his/her own liking. People who were around at that time remember how rock-and-roll was reviled, how long hair was a major social problem, and how the hippies rebelled against everything their parents stood for. It was a mostly peaceful revolution, the "make love not war" kind, but it was a revolution nonetheless.
FTA: "No sex, bad language and little violence was observed on the screen."
Does that mean that Western movies had little violence? How about series like "Gunsmoke"? Perhaps there were only three TV channels when the first wave of baby boomers was growing up, but once grown, it was the baby boomers who watched movies like "Hair" and "Clockwork Orange," with lots of bad language and lots of violence.
There were no predators in the 50s? Sure there were; only mass communication was less developed and we heard less about them. Parents shaped their children in their own image? Then where did all the hippies come from? Where did the drug culture come from?-
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tehranchik6 months, 1 week ago
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I agree. I grew up with indians scalping white man - white man shooting redskins. The war movies! OMGosh. We were exposed to the violence as well.
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I remember having to know where the nearest bomb shelter was so when the Russians attacked we'd know where to go! People built special cement rooms in their basements. Remember the civil defense alerts on tv?
Violence has always been there in varying degrees. The thing that's changed is technology. We've gone from a six gun to a laser. Just more efficient.
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