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Todays youth versus yesteryears.
Remember watching, Leave it to Beaver, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, Bugs Bunny, The Superheros, Eight is Enough, The Dukes of Hazard? Today kids are watching Sponge Bob, ICarly, Jimmy Neutron, CSI (Miami, Denver, Chicago, LA, MInnesota, Kansas City, and who knows what other names they call it), Heroes. Do you think that they act out according to the shows? If they were to watch only the shows from the older generation, would they act the same or be different. These old shows, I think, taught me to be kind and treat others with respect. I'm sure shows like ICarly does this also, however I feel it's not enough. Sure parents have the most influence, but our younger parents today didn't see those old shows. Just wondering if they did a study on kids for one year to see if this hypothesis would prove true or not. One group of kids could only watch the old shows and the other group could only watch todays. Would each group act different? What are your thoughts?
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Permalink Reply by John on
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Not real sure about what the results would be but I do know the old shows were far better than what they have today. I also think that they way kids are today has alot to do with the discipline or lack of with some parents, My deceased wife was always worried that if she was to hard on them that the law would arrest her for abuse. When we were young if we even thought about stepping out of line our parents would come down on us hard, so for the most part we all behaved better, due to the fear of having our parents spank us. We also had the fear in elementary school of going to the principals office and getting a whack with the paddle back then too, now adays the kids know they don't have to worry about that cause if it happens to them they tell the parents who then want to sue the school, the teacher, and the principal. There is no fear of repriasal for kids nowadays. Ok I will get off my soap box now LOL.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Acosta on
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That was awesome, I am a teacher also and I agree. Going to the principal and getting the paddle was so easy to do back then. Nowadays, you're paying up the ying-yang when you do this because of sue happy people. I remember when my mother was not hesitant to slap us in the grocery store for being out of line. You knew it was bad, when she did the wait till the car comment.
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Permalink Reply by Eric on
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I have to agree with John. I'm sure shows have some influence on a child's behavior, but I am a firm believer that it has to do with how they are raised. I'm a younger guy, but I remember getting a few whacks on the bare behind if I wasn't behaving. I grew up knowing better than to misbehave. I still have the same level of respect around and toward my elders that I did then. Now I see kids that are trying to be more grown up, acting like they are in charge of the house and in many cases the parents let them be. Now, I'm not saying that it has to be physical discipline, though legally it can be. Do I think that works better? Honestly, I do. I'm only saying spanking or a little slap and am in no way advocating anything severe. I think what makes it an issue is that some people don't know where to draw the line. John, you are absolutely right about too many parents that would sue the school. Too many people find any reason to file a lawsuit. It wouldn't surprise me if someone's child acted out and the parents tried suing the network that runs the shows that the child watches for influencing the child to act that way. If my parents thought something would have a bad influence on me, they would forbid it. That included TV shows. If I disobeyed I'd be spanked, grounded, have something taken away from me for a given peeriod of time or a combination of those. I learned really early on to obey my parents and I think I turned out decent. It's strange for me to look at the decline in overall respect and good behavior by today's youth, being only 25. Paul, sorry to go off on that tangent. I just figured I'd add my supporting opinion to what you've both mentioned.
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Permalink Reply by Dennis Brown on
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Yes i do think it might of help today these kids today dont have respect and by the laws these days they have more rights then we did . o the best line wait until your father gets home lol
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That was great. Thanks.
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I agree on the single mother situation. My sister raised her daughter on her own and she has done a fantastic job. Sometimes its better for single parents to raise their own. Many high profile people were raised by single parents. I'm not really blaming shows but I think they had some influence in life. Maybe it was sitting with my parents and watching them as a family? Not sure, but nonetheless, I am proud of the way I turned out and now hearing others tell me how my wife and I raised our children real well.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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On the other hand, the older generation didn't have to worry about mass school shootings like the ones in Pearl Mississippi and Columbine, Colorado. Paddling for misbehavior isn't going to fix that particular problem.
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Permalink Reply by Matthew on
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I agree damnthing.
I think thats where a lot of the problem lies. As a kid did I want to be spanked? hell no! but it did me good and let me know at a young age that life isn't Burger King, you can't always have it your way, that throwing some kind of tantrum to get your way isn't acceptable behavior and sometimes the answer is going to be "no", live with it lol. Now that I'm an adult I don't look back on the rare times my parent's even spanked me as parental "abuse" I know it was my parent's way of correcting me.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Simpson on
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yes i believe your right, they would be different to a degree. we watched the shows our parents said we could, and back then they did not have the same kind of shows on. so even though i think the tv had some affect on us the most does come from the parents and in todays society, we are having kids have kids and nobody wants to deal with any of them when the kids do arrive.
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Permalink Reply by Trainer on
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I would have to say yes I think it would make a difference; TV has long been a babysitter, even back in my day my parents would let me watch all the TV I wanted, but there were only 3 channels and violence was pretty scarce, then came Pong man that was fun for about an hour, then we would go OUTSIDE and play.
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Permalink Reply by Jessica Travis on
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im not sure if they would behave better or badly were this to be a real study.. I was raised on a mix of these shows (leave it to beaver, brady bunch, emergency, and i saw most of those show you listed for todays generation) and i think a mix is better than just watching one thing for such a long time. The older shows are based on real life and something that could happen in real life while the newer ones are in a cartoon induced fantasy land. I dont think there bad, but to answer your question yes they would be different.
Jess<3
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Permalink Reply by Art "ChiefReason" Goodrich on
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I agree that TV is the problem.
But it is not the TV shows.
It is the extremely violent video games being played on the TV.
When you look at all of the violence in today's society, it comes from SOMEWHERE.
Killing is not instinctive to the human race. It has to be a learned response.
When you look at the multiple victim killings, it is pre-meditated and practiced and since practicing with real weapons might reveal your planned intentions, it is better to do it in the privacy of a simulator; that is, the video game equivalent.
The type of game does NOT influence the person to commit murder. It allows it to improve skills.
And it's sick.
Parents should not allow their kids to buy, play or even go to a friend's house to play some of these games.
I don't think that it's exactly healthy.
TCSS.
Art
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