[GailA]

When you turn on the BOOB TUBE and all you see is wall to wall sex and violence. When you listen to there generations music and all you hear is sex and violence. What would you expect their behavior to be. Especially when they are seeing the same behavior at home.

Pavlov's dog experiments come to mind.

Filth in, filth out. A play on the old garbage in, garbage out theory.

[ventana]

People have to be brave enough to get rid of tv. I hear so many people bellyache about the condition our society is in, but they don't have the guts to throw tv out of their homes. The want their football, or there is just one show they love, and so on. It's quite like an addiction. Can you imagine loving a restaurant because it make a great Beef Burgandy, and you just have to eat there once a week, year in year out. But over time the place has changed; the people are foul mouthed; everybody smokes; the people also don't bathe; they belch and pass gas with abandon. But you love that Beef Burgandy so each week you dutifully walk through the door of the joint, pick your way past the vermin, and meekly sit down to order your meal which a rude, in your face jerk throws down on the table with a leering sneer on his face. And you keep on accepting it. You get what you deserve.

I stopped accepting that kind of treatment. No more cable, no more tv (well for some reason does Lifetime comes in!). We rent videos we get from the library. We get our news from the internet. My kids are straight A students. My son just got his Eagle Scout award, and an NROTC scholarship to a top school. My daugher is an accomplished ballerina. They are informed and funny kids, and they are not spoiled. They are glad to spend a Saturday night with us watching a rental movie and sharing popcorn. Believe me, I know it sounds corny, but that's the way we live. And I am not telling you of my children's accomplishments to brag (ok, maybe a little) but really to let parents of younger children know, you CAN control your home, and how you choose to do so WILL have an effect on your children. You would likely never let a foul mouthed drunken motorcyle type barge into your home and wreak havoc by having a poor influence on your children, so why passively accept what the Television Executive Programmers want to shove down your throat?

The day will come when we can program our own tv's; until then, turn the tv off. V's wife.