phinz said:
That line's been blurred for millenia. It's just that we're exposed to it in a more forceful way these days if we experience any media exposure whatsoever.
Parenting is, and should be, a full-time job in itself. Only you can engender your kids with the way things should be. It takes a village? Nope. It takes a parent that actually cares, and even then your kids will do what they please in the end, because that's part of growing up.
This is true, I totally agree with your views of parenting, but as parent's we we have enough bad influences to do battle with without having our TV making our job all the more difficult.
Our daugther picked up the phrase "Well DUH!" from Michelle in Full House, a program which I believed, up till then, a nice family oriented program, but when it came time to break our daughter of a disgusting habit that she picked up from TV, her rebuttal was "If it's not nice then why do they put it on TV?". She just couldn't grasp the simple concept that sometimes they put bad things on TV, even in otherwise good shows. After that she was not allowed to watch Full House anymore, and we quit watching after that as well.
The problem was that the producers of Full House gave into something that they believed would be a cutsy catch-phrase to boost ratings, without thinking of the consequences of their actions. This is an all too common experience among media agencies today. They seem to be completely out of touch with the real world. Statistics and demographic studies never tell the whole story.
I'm trying to remember the exact program where I saw these commercials, my daughter got me hooked on Ed, Edd and Eddy (Cartoon Network) and Spongebob Squarepants (Nickelodeon) so it might have been one of these, not sure.
The good news though is that since everyone has started writing to Nintendo, I haven't seen the commercial advertised in this area anymore where I was seeing it several times a day, so I'm wondering if they've pulled it?
~ Raven ~