2007-01-21 12:17:00 · 15 answers · asked by Sati 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
I am a grandparent who grew up at a time when the individual was responsible for the choices they made. I do believe our home life and our environment can affect our choices.But to put the blame on tv and music is rather lame. It makes it sound like people do not have the capacity to make good choices. Should we stop news broadcasts and newspapers because someone might commit a crime? People grow up in bad environments and CHOOSE to do the right thing.Many escape the stereotype because they are not afraid to dream and work hard to get that dream. Give me a break when people try to find neat reasons for why people do the wrong thing. Being held accountable for our actions at an early age is more a factor in shaping our lives than placing blame on everyone and everything else but the individual.
2007-01-21 13:31:48 · answer #1 · answered by gussie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's way more than that. If they are raised right, they will know what is wrong and what is right. They should know that a murder in a television show isn't real and isn't moral. The environment in which they grow up in is usually the most impacting influence in a child's life. This is what really determines how and what they will grow up to be. Music and television may affect how they talk at times, how they act, but it isn't necessarily going to turn them into killers or gamblers or whatever unless they are raised without morals.
2007-01-21 20:28:33 · answer #2 · answered by V.V.C. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes because the psyche of children and adults alike is a most permeable cohort set of engrams, considerably susceptible to import from the world around.
One of the most indelible of all means of commuting a vehicle of light(tv) and sound(radio) between the outer and inner is through music first of all, and tv second of all. None is so powerful as that of music, however, which has that capacity to create, sustain, or destroy, so mighty is its innate virtues.
And we can now add the Internet, which is indeed a combination of the Light and Sound because it includes not only tv and radio but telephone as well. And this constitutes a full dimension in terms of influence on everyone.
Pre-teen children are of course the most susceptible and impressionable of all. Yet they have a considerably great advantage to advance the world around us given the rate of speed of the import of the new and their capacities to process the flood of divergent information and knowledge now afforded.
The keen-eyed ones are best who do not micro-manage but rather edit what the "kid" makes of what he or she is seeing and feeling and thereby doing as results. In other words, it is what they derive from it and create. Therefore, their ' intention ' is what to be aware of, for one's intention can create a universe or wipe one out. That is just how important the influence of one's thoughts are and can be.
Encumbent upon everyone, therefore, is to impart quality to a child's thoughts by bringing the high idea to bear on their inquiries and intrigues, for at the very youngest ages children are at once scientists and artists and humanitarians. It is in the DNA of all human beings, see?
To that end, allow no restraint to their native leaps of fancy but rather provide them an exposure to Nature itself, give them something they can put their mental teeth in, something they can touch, which efforts always bring considerably strong perspectives to their hearts and minds, and this as well stations a buffer within the psyche that wards against imbalance, which resulting neutrality fosters outrageously great vistas in their imaginings. They in turn become light givers and not destroyers of worlds.
2007-01-21 20:56:07 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if the parents let tv and music raise their kids for them.
2007-01-21 20:25:43 · answer #4 · answered by 420 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nope. I watched Power Rangers religiously as a kid, and I'm not the slightest bit violent.
2007-01-21 20:47:56 · answer #5 · answered by * 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so. Along with other things, television and music desensitize us to violence and sexual behavior. Its not only children, but people of all ages. Children are more impressionable.
I am against censorship and banning of materials on television, music, and movies. It just lies on the parents to instill to their children right vs. wrong.
2007-01-21 20:28:18 · answer #6 · answered by ryan_dunn102003 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, the media is so much more influential than we can ever realize. It defines what's normal, it defines moral behavior, it bombards us with misinformation, over and over again that we accept as truth because of the repetition and because those things go unchallenged. It's amazing.
2007-01-21 20:22:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
when my kids where toddlers i used to put heavy metal on and we used to do the horns of rock!
and they where no diffrent to all their friends who listein to barny or the tellytubbies
that said, young children learn from imitation, so what they see on tv they will copy and think its acceptable (kids learn from thier surroundings) so you have to be careful what kids see on TV
2007-01-21 20:23:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely, I only let my son watch playhouse disney and animal planet. If he even gets a 5 minute clip of spiderman or something he instantly wants to fight and get bad guys. I think t.v. and music influence alot look at how fat our population is because all any one does is play video games and eat. 50 years ago we didn't have this problem
2007-01-21 20:23:56 · answer #9 · answered by lovingmommy 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Yes!! They influence kids' lives a lot! So you have to be very careful what your kids watch!!
2007-01-21 20:27:25 · answer #10 · answered by casey 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋