Do you monitor your child's TV programs?

Our youngest son is seven. And what we don't want him to see we don't see either. We have to be discerning enough to choose the right kind of programs we want him to see because we can't just switch on and off. We have to be a little ahead of him, plan his schedule wisely and maximize prime-time viewing.

We try as much as possible to not make decisions for the children of our house. We have to trust that we are raising them right and honestly, violent programming or "inappropriate language" isn't really a big deal for us television wise as we have found out from research that children are more likely to copy real life than television or other media. In some other studies they even found that a little escape in the form of a violent game or a tv program that contains a little blood is healthier to a child's brain, it's just that some adults don't take the time to explain this to them that's the problem. Anyway, in my opinion, wrestling isn't that much violent for a 5 year old. A lot of people I know including me have grown up to lead happy and healthy lives and we grew up watching WWE wrestling. Children can definitely understand what they are watching when you explain it well enough. In our case, at these times, we generally have just learned not to let the children watch too much television in general, so they can focus more on books and stuff. Unfortunately we are all a little bit of TV addicts as well so we just try to balance everything as much as possible. As I assume you and all other parents do. Just doing what they think is best. Good luck and I hope this helped even if just a little. Interesting topic! ++!!

Of course, I monitor my children when playing games or watching television. But I was never banned. I always accompany my child every watch television, I always explain to my children what is good and what is bad with the television show, my child is watching.

As parents today, I honestly don't think that we would be doing our job as parents if we weren't monitoring what our children see and hear and the television and on the computer. When it comes to television viewing, I typically keep the tv on a kid friendly station and I will hide the remote so the kids can't change the channel. Then when it comes to their computer/internet usage, I've downloaded a children's browser where I have to manually approve the websites that the kids want to use, but it is easy for them to navigate.

Hi keep_onwatch, i will monitor my child, what he is watching in the TV. Mostly cartoons he will watch but still cartoons program too using bad words and ugly things, which i want to restrict. But some are interesting and they can learn many things, like making dolls, colouring etc., i prefer those programs. Some IQ / quiz program i ask him watch.