What are they doing to the children!?!?!

Heibges · 04-27-07, 09:10 PM

LOL

I always remember Starship Troopers (the book not the movie) where students can't understand how they would have learned anything if their parents couldn't spank them.

Camaero · 04-27-07, 10:06 PM

One day I was home sick and I saw one of those early morning kid shows with some white rapper guy wanna be/ teletubbie wanna be. It was so aweful I couldn't turn away for maybe 10 minutes. It was just soooooooooo bad. He was just dancing around like an idiot like they do, and then they had the kids join him. Do you ever notice there is always a couple white kids, a black kid, and an asian kid? They try so hard not to be racist! I was trying to find a youtube of it but I don't even know the name.

I'm just glad I wasn't born any later than I was.

P_Funk · 04-28-07, 12:28 AM

I blame he Hippies. Bloody sell outs. Free love in the 60s, anti-war in the 70s, sold out, became acountants, did coke, and had some bratty kids while they obcessed over their own social climbing.

Ostfriese · 04-28-07, 12:52 AM

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.

P_Funk · 04-28-07, 01:57 AM

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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.

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.

04-27-07, 09:10 PM	#1
Heibges Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San Francisco, California Posts: 1,633 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	LOL I always remember Starship Troopers (the book not the movie) where students can't understand how they would have learned anything if their parents couldn't spank them. __________________ U.Kdt.Hdb B. I. 28) This possibility of using the hydrophone to help in detecting surface ships should, however, be restricted to those cases where the submarine is unavoidably compelled to stay below the surface. http://www.hackworth.com/

04-27-07, 10:06 PM	#2
Camaero The Old Man Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA, Massachusetts Posts: 1,477 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	One day I was home sick and I saw one of those early morning kid shows with some white rapper guy wanna be/ teletubbie wanna be. It was so aweful I couldn't turn away for maybe 10 minutes. It was just soooooooooo bad. He was just dancing around like an idiot like they do, and then they had the kids join him. Do you ever notice there is always a couple white kids, a black kid, and an asian kid? They try so hard not to be racist! I was trying to find a youtube of it but I don't even know the name. I'm just glad I wasn't born any later than I was. __________________

04-28-07, 12:28 AM	#3
P_Funk Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canada, eh? Posts: 2,537 Downloads: 129 Uploads: 0	I blame he Hippies. Bloody sell outs. Free love in the 60s, anti-war in the 70s, sold out, became acountants, did coke, and had some bratty kids while they obcessed over their own social climbing. __________________

04-28-07, 12:52 AM	#4
Ostfriese Sea Lord Join Date: May 2004 Location: Northern Germany Posts: 1,844 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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.