Who is Shaping Your Kids Behavior?
What if you could hire, at a minimal charge, a young celebrity to come into your home, sit down with your young ones, and spend several hours preaching the undesirable behaviors that appear in many of the popular TV shows? And what if you could afford for these celebrities to come every day to help convince your kids that these behaviors are good and moral? Would you do it?
Repetition and modeling is one of the most powerful tools used to shape behavior. Is this who you want shaping the behavior and attitudes of your children?
Could this be happening already? The TV serves that same purpose in many homes. The messages pushed by the shows favored by teens and preteens have changed in the last fifteen years.
If this has snuck up on you, check out what TV programming is teaching your youngsters about narcissistic, immoral, and violent behavior, and then decide for yourself if you want this drummed into your child's head.
Laura Lauder reminds us that the viewing audience has more power than we realize…no viewing audience + no program = no dollars to support the stations. The viewing audience has all the control. She reminds us that we can help end objectionable TV/media. Here's what can be done:
- TURN OFF THE OFFENSIVE PROGRAMS.
- Contact the advertisers and tell them you object to the content of the shows and you are requesting that they not support such programming.
- Contact the television stations and tell them you object to such programming and that you will not support the advertisers of that station.
Some parents use TV as a babysitter. There is a high price to pay for hiring the wrong sitter.
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