Parents are pressuring Congress to put restrictions on the television industry to clean up its content. The Super Bowl halftime show incident featuring a quick flash by Janet Jackson sparked this round of the ongoing debate.
Parents now have incredible advantages to those of 15 years ago. Some can have V-chips installed to screen programs for swear words and automatically block certain dialogue. Others have systems that can lock entire channels. Today's parents are not void of options to protect their children from content they see as unfit.
Yet they are still complaining.
Parents do their best to explain any dangers to children, show them ways to cope with those dangers, then hope for the best if those dangers arise. This tactic can be applied to children who encounter any situation they are not accustomed to, including television content.
All parents have different standards for what is fit for their children to watch. However, the children who are allowed to watch whatever they wanted still play harmoniously with children who can see nothing over a G rating. They all grow up together relatively unharmed.
Parenting is the first step to dealing with issues like television content. If a child is taught what is real from what is pretend, or what is appropriate to watch from what is for adults only, there should be no problem. Parents should turn off the television. Take the kids outside, read books, or color.
Many generations were raised this way long before television existed.
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