TV & Children

The Pilot, the Archdiocese of Boston's Catholic newspaper, had an article recently about children and TV. There's a new program from satellite television called BabyFirstTV that is aimed at the younger children, below age 2. And yet most psychologists agree that children under the age of 2 should not be exposed to TV. And those over the age of 2 could have exposure but with a parent present. What are your children watching on TV? Are they watching violence, death, loud noise, sexually implicit shows, etc? Do you know? It seems that TV is getting more graphic and showing information of an adult nature to younger and younger children and parents who often tend to use the TV as a babysitter do not know how badly their children are being infected by these programs. The next time your children turn on the TV, watch the program with them, and ask yourself if the characters on the TV portray the kind of person you want your child to become.