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Originally Posted by Ostfriese
TV and other media teach kids from early on to become good and well-behaved customers. Nothing more, nothing less. Who cares about intelligence? Who cares about the ability to understand things? Who cares about social skills? TV et al. don't.
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Yes but TVs still have off buttons and there is still a playground at every school.
Parents are the ones that are letting their kids become mindless economic tools. Granted the advertisement media has an alarming amount of influence. But I'm only 19 (20 in 2 days, YAY for me), and I grew up with a TV and Pop Tarts and SUpersoakers and all the rest of that crap. My parents, particularly my mom, did a great job of influencing me to do more than just watch TV and want
things.
I'm not trying to put myself out there as some brilliant example of a superb human being, but I do think that it can't be blamed on culture in general. We make our own culture at home. TV didn't stand a chance because my mom and dad read me stories. My dad and I actually would go to garage sales and library sales looking for Hardy Boys novels (of all things eh?). He handed me 'The Hobbit' when I was 8, and I had read The Lord of the Rings long before they were making a movie.
I think that its a choice. Parents are choosing alot these days to be selfish. To neglect their kids and supplement their bad emotional connection with alot of materialism. The classist society we live in says its better to be rich than smart. So mom should work too. But then there are stay at home moms that are morons too.
I don't know really. It seems that parenting has fallen out of fashion.