Junk TV affecting our children
 

Hooked on toxic TV: Teen viewing diaries reveal alarming diet of sex, greed and cruelty | Mail Online"Cruelty. greed. Graphic under-age sex. Forget the watershed... thanks to today's technology, your children can watch ANYTHING at ANY TIME. We asked four teenage girls to keep a diary of their viewing. What they told us was alarming"

I found this article alarming.
No wonder our society is deteriorating.
Do you monitor what your children watch?
Do you see whether or not it is warping their view of what is an acceptable way to live?

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Defenatly, My little one is sometimes I feel in a trance watching TV.

In all honesty I do not monitor what is watched, but Im usually in the same room so would see if its something that I class as unacceptable.

We live in a TV society, myself included, Im looking forward to 24 tonight, but recently have strayed away from the soaps ect and gone more for police shows (reality) and the likes of discovery, history channels ect.

I feel it has a huge impact on society and what can be classed as acceptable.

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I have thought for a very long time that TV, films and video games must be impacting on the way kids behave. There is far to much violence which is seen to be acceptable, kids should be getting out and excercising more instead of being transported to other worlds.

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My children are stil quite young, 8 and 5, so I monitor their viewing very closely.

I won't allow them to watch tv for long periods, no having the tv blaring out when no-one is watching and neither child has a tv in their bedroom.

I encourage other activities before tv....hobbies, playing out, playing made up games or board games.

My 8 yr old likes to play on the x box but, again, I don't allow him on for long periods, nor is he allowed to play 18 rated games.

I probably come accross as very strict when you read this but I think if you set the scene when they're young then they'll be less likely to lump about in front of the tv/xbox for long periods when they're older. They will be used to enjoying other things.

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I have looked at the programmes on all the five main channels tonight, and nothing there that I consider junk. Some decent stuff. :confused:

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Yes, it does look very worrying.



Could anyone tell me the channel for The Girls of the Playboy Mansion please?

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E!,Tue19th - 5-30---10-00----11-30:theband:

Only on Sky and Virgin I think.

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Thanks very much, Benipete. I regard it as nothing less than my public duty to watch this disgusting programme to assess for myself how bad this problem really is!

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Ya kate but did you check the hundreds of channels on satellite, there is some really dodgy stuff on them:D

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Thanks, Benipete. Think I may have to watch this Playboy programme a few times to accurately assess its content.

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yep..it's never anything to do with us parents..it's all the fault of those "other" parents that don't care.

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The only alarming thing about the article is that you as a 'normal' type of person find it alarming, there will always be parent's that don't give a monkey's about what 'their' children watch, but normal parent's do give a monkey's about what 'our' children watch.

Perhaps if you came out of your own trance you would realise your little one doesn't need to be in front of the television there will, if you look carefully be a switch marked OFF, or similar, then you could spend your time entertaining & teaching the child yourself.

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it isn't just TV.....programmes can be accessed through computers......I guess this mainly attracts the teens with laptops that they can take into their room......so I would think that is much harder to monitor...unless there is a parental lock on their laptop.

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ok Margaret..at what age do you put a parental lock on?..you are a sensible adult..did your parents "lock" you?

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There wasn't TV at our house until I was in my teens.
I don't think that Radio Luxemburg corrupted me :rolleyes:

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are you sure..listening to the smooth tones of Tony Blackburn late at night could turn a girls head!:D

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He was in short trousers then - and now he is a big boy, he still is no turn on.

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Mancie, I am 62 years old....there were no TV's or home computers when I was growing up......like many others on here I lived a life, played out.
My parents took care to try make sure that I was safe...but safety was different then, they educated us about dangers......you fell in a lodge, and you swam or drowned.....yes we went on the railway lines, but I am still here to talk about it.
Far different times.

I was talking about the fact that children can access TV through a laptop...which is portable, so while the child may not have a TV or computer in their bedroom......they may take their laptop into the privacy of their room to view what ever they like...no watershed on computers, so they can access stuff that their parents may feel is inappropriate....somehow you seem to have missed my point. Never mind.

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Im in no trance, happen if you came of your high horse you may realise this. The old off button, yes know it well happen you should try it yourself sometime.:p

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You should be more worried about what else can be accessed with a laptop than what they might be watching on TV

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Wouldn't even dream of buying a laptop for a child of mine until they were at least 18 .. when maybe they have a need for a portable one. Better to buy a P.C., in full view of the whole family.

I don't see anything wrong with the programmes this girl was watching .. she was chosen for her blinkered viewing anyway. Nothing wrong in watching fashion make overs (good to try to make yourself look good), and teenage situations .... not many take them seriously anyway.

Most children under 12 would only be interested in light entertainment in any case. I was guilty of putting the T.V. on just to keep a 2 year old son quiet for 10 minutes to restore my brain back to normality whilst Thomas the Tank Engine was on. Later on, as long as homework was done ... then didn't monitor length of time T.V. was being watched.

These days, they are more likely to be playing computer games for long hours ('cept for breaks playing footy on the street).. as did my son .. but always loads of his mates there too. Some games were violent, but none has had any adverse affects on any of them from what I can see; all decent non-violent citizens with decent jobs, except if you consider one who is now a Sergeant in the army. :rolleyes:

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Neil, I don't worry about what my 'child' is watching....she is a grown woman and quite capable of discerning what is rubbish and what isn't.
Those days of me worrying what my child is up to have long departed.

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And isn't there a parental control thing on internet access?...or is that something I have dreamed up?

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In the playground on friday morning, one of Maddie's 9 year old friends asked her if she'd watched the launch of Big Brother. Maddie hadn't - for a start it's on too late, but other than that the content is definitely not something I would like my 9 year old to see. Clearly other parents allow their children to watch it.

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I'm shocked by some of the things that 8 year olds tell me they watch......Little Britain was the one that most shocked me.

As if you'd let an 8 year old watch Little Britain! :eek:

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i suppose a good start for kids programs would be for them to have english speaking charecters rather than stupid teletubby retards bouncing about teh place and such like

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some folk will let their kids watch owt and play owt as long as it keeps them quiet

i found out one time that my sons mums friends were letting my son who was about 9 at the time watch 18 rated movies whe he was stopping over but this stopped after i mentioned that if it happened again they would get a size 9 up their arse ( refering to shoes b4 neil says owt lol )

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To be quite honest Lilly I think if my Mother was still alive she'd stop me from watching Little Briain even now:rolleyes:, but she'd wouldn't really have to bother, only ever watched one episode for ten minutes and haven't watch a second of it since

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As one comedian once said, can't remember who, it is a joke that violence is caused by television. You don't see comedy being re-enacted on the streets, or drama like Casualty.

It's all a bit too easy to blame tv for the faults of children these days, when most of the problem is down to what the children are pre-occupied with. If they're engaged in activities they won't need to hang around and be influenced by the wrong things.

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When I was young, which is a long time ago, we didn't have half the things kids have today, we made our own entertainment without causing trouble for others, the thing being that if we did cause problems those problems would come right back at us, in the form of a good clout round the ear and we'd be grounded

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So then, by that reasoning, if children are pre-occupied with inappropriate stuff on TV......this will be a problem? Or have I got the gist of your post wrong?(again)
If children are engaged in activites, then of course they won't be influenced by the TV that they aren't watching....unless of course they are engaged in inappropriate activies that they have seen on inappropriate TV programs.

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I watched plenty of tv as a child, you can learn a lot from it. But I also balanced this with reading a lot, playing outside a lot and using my imagination.

Most children seem to get influenced by negative things the moment they walk outside the door these days, before they've even had chance to use their imaginations.

Some of the things I heard from people when I was at school was atrocious. I think a lot of it comes down to what sort of area you live in as well. And the parents.

TV isn't to blame for anything. There are far more violent books out there that you can buy in your local waterstones if you wanted. It's like people blaming Marilyan Manson and stuff for kids going AWOL. I know some really intelligent people at university who have got them into trouble over their beliefs, and this is from reading. One of my friends hates the government, hates the police and incites riots at protests. It'd be stupid to blame tv for that.

In fact come to think of it, they seem to blame anything we enjoy. I wonder if I might compose a score for a film tomorrow just because I excessively listen to Yann Tiersen. I play Wagner every morning, it gets me ready for my climax.

Take that as you want :D

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That wasn't the question.

If children don't read then the violent books are not an issue.....and there is evidence in Educational studies that children read less now than they did 20 or 30years ago....although the Harry Potter books did some good in reversing this trend.
Children mimic what they see, they copy.......and if they watch inappropriate things on TV, then they may be influenced by what they have seen...especially if they do not have adequate role models in the home.
I don't really blame TV, or the internet.......parents are the arbiters of good reading, good watching, and the sensible use of other media forms.

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I'm not the right person to ask, I always just enjoyed reading without my parents guiding me. I never mimicked anything I've seen on television that I knew wasn't the right thing to do, and intuition comes naturally I think. Very few people do bad things not realising they are bad.

I think society as a whole should take responsibility for the good and bad aspects of society. We're all a product of each other.

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Yes it is something that you dreamed up. Filtering internet content is very hard

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Oh well, Neil when I dream of how to do it in the practical sense....I guess it would make a lot of money:)

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I find it hard to believe that you never mimicked anything that you saw on TV......you never played Cowboys and Indians then.......? Or any other game that was the product of your imagination being stimulated by televisual images?
You must have been a very unique child.

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Margaret tht was a daft statemen blazey was the Golden Child:D

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I liked walking in streams when I was outside and I had a very active imagination. I enjoyed writing my own stories and poems, my best subject at primary school was English. And I sang in the choir so I sang a lot. I didn't watch anything that was worth mimicking.