first post and a long one
By zallakaboola
@zallakaboola (67)
Canada
February 28, 2007 7:54pm CST
ok pay attention now this is gonna be a bit long and it does ramble. i am retyping this by hand since i cant paste it from my live journal. this is mostly to parents or expecting parents or pople trying to become parents. and it is about violent media and children. to start with i will tell you something about me. I am 27 and i watch TV. I atually possibly watch to much tv. although i am not usually just wtaching TV like right now i am watching house and posting this. another thing is i have always and still do enjopy not just shows at my own age level but a level or so below my age group. i enjoy a good episode of fairly odd parents as well as naruto ghost in the shell house as said above and other such shows, so i got a good idea what todays youth are watchng. and while some of these shows do show violence a large portion dont. i however will say i dont enjoy prank patrol and jackass type shows.
now heres a little bit of the kicker think about this todays youth are rather apathetic in general but still seem to be violent/angry. and soemthing i saw in an episode of fairly odd parents made me think about this. Timmy that star of the cartoon a 10 year old kid with fairy god parents was being babysitted by his grand father. after trying everything he could think of to find something in common with his grandfather so he would babysit from then on and not vicky the baby sitter from hell he gives up and watches some cartoons (they showed a spoof of captain planet a very bad one) hios grand father noticed and showed him a spoof of pop eye and timmy was all "holy gratuitus violence batman" as the sailor dude ate a bag of beets and punched the daylights out of some idiot. and grand father remarked "you bet the generation that watched these cartoons started 3 wars 2 civic rights movements and a police action" (paraphrased) think about that for a second. my generation was on the tail end of the tom and jerry and looney toons and even my generation seems more inclined to be proactive then todays youth, and thats not saying all that much.
and we had violent video games too remember doom??? or duke nukem 3d??? oh yeah and we didnt turn out all violent and stuff. so you argue that todays violent video games are more violent somehow? HA in dukenukem 3d you blew up females with a grenade launcher!!!
does anyone not stop to think maybe there is a lack of parental intervention we had when we were growing up?
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@BDnLacy (324)
• United States
1 Mar 07
1st off. Congrats on your 1st post. It was a long one, but I have seen and posted longer, so don't worry about the the length of it.
Now too the subject of your post. I could not agree more with your statements. I have post all over the net saying basically the same thing.
Parents seem not to have time to teach their children right from wrong these days. And then wants to blame everything or everyone else when their child grows up to be a bully or worst.
I've heard so many times, "My child was always so sweet. I just can't believe he/she would do something like that." BULL! That child was always that way. The parents just wasn't paying attention. I have children from 10 too 23 and I have had to step up more than once to take the blame with my older ones for not being the parent I should have been. So I'm not a parent that has perfect children. But when they mess up, it has nothing to do wit TV or games. It was always their decision to mess up and my place to accept blame when they were given the opportunity to mess up and not stopping it.
So yes Parents do need to be more active in their children's lives. And stop trying to be their best friends. Friends they will make on their own. Parents are meant to guide and teach, not hang with.
@TheGreatWhiteBuffalo (4822)
• United States
2 Mar 07
What you input into your mind or nourish your thoughts with will prevail or be expressed in your own thoughts and actions. We all can be influenced by the actions or thoughts expressed by others.
You can not serve two masters...
The more good you feed the good side the more good you will encourage from your self and others.
Quite the opposite is also true...
Suppose the bad is attacking the good you try to do?
If you are against the world, you are probably on the right path to being good.
When the world is good, what would the world look like and would anyone be against a world at peace?
What would you give for world peace?
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@MrCoolantSpray (1005)
• United States
3 Mar 07
Parental supervision is definitely the answer. I've played video games all my life, watched cartoons all my life, listened to Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. I played Grand Theft Auto 3 and enjoyed every minute of it. I played GTA:Vice City with Less enjoyment, and couldn't play San Andreas because the violence and language made me physically sick. My parants taught me right from wrong, and it stuck with me. They knew what I was doing when I was a kid, and now that I'm an adult, I know what I'm doing and I know if it's right or not. Parental supervision as a kid sticks when you're an adult.
As to the other question, the one about the apathy: When I was a kid, people still went outside to play. I think being active physically helps with being actively mentally. People who don't do anything don't care about anything. You don't have to think to watch tv or IM on the internet. You have to think to foster civil rights movements.
