Dear parents, today I want you to think about the violence on television and the harm that it can cause to your children. I want you to think, how much time your child spends in front of TV and how much violence scenes he observes during that time. We looked through several researches and most of them showed that on the average children are watching TV three to four hours a day. Just imagine how much could your child learn or do during this time!
Most of you wouldn’t think twice about forbidding your child to watch a movie, which is full of violence and explicit sex scenes. But many children have television sets in their own bedrooms and with just one punch of the TV remote control they can watch as much violence as they want to. And sometimes they won’t even know that they are watching something forbidden, because today violence appears not only in movies, but also in cartoons, in commercials, in sporting events and in the news. The problem is that there are situations when children are not able to distinguish the real violence which is shown in the news from that in the movies which is frequently repeated and usually left unpunished. …
