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Young children will often imitate the acts of violence while playing with their peers. Studies have shown that children that constantly watch aggressive acts become desensitized to it. In today’s media children often see their heroes acting violent and are often rewarded for their behavior. Seeing such violence for a righteous cause is easily translated in the right thing to do, against victimizers (Beresin, 2004). For instance, the television show “The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” which aired in 1993- 1995. Many children would act out what they saw their heroes do, with their peers, and not realizing that it was wrong to do so. Even in today’s world, with shows like Game of Thrones, 24, CSI, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Justified, Heroes, and The Vampire Diaries, All of the Law and Order series. These all contain violence that desensitizes our youths
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Do we blame the producer’s, writer’, programmer’s or the director’s? The answer is no, we cannot blame anyone of those people they are just giving the mass population what they want to be entertained. No, in short we can only blame ourselves; “the parent’s” it is our job in life to educate our children, to teach them right from wrong. We need to limit our children’s mass media intake and make sure that they know that what they see is not real. Parents need to realize that the problem just will not go away; the numbers are stack against the average American child. Parents should know that the influence of media on children who watch television, movies, music, video games, and the Internet arises not only from the types of behavior they encourage, but also from the other interests they supplant. Parents must take time to learn what their children are viewing and playing. Even the most superficial, inconsequential guidance can have a philosophical effect. While government can set forth, though public guidelines, what we as a society demand of us, parents should eventually assume the accountability of shaping their children to meet those
Do we blame the producer’s, writer’, programmer’s or the director’s? The answer is no, we cannot blame anyone of those people they are just giving the mass population what they want to be entertained. No, in short we can only blame ourselves; “the parent’s” it is our job in life to educate our children, to teach them right from wrong. We need to limit our children’s mass media intake and make sure that they know that what they see is not real. Parents need to realize that the problem just will not go away; the numbers are stack against the average American child. Parents should know that the influence of media on children who watch television, movies, music, video games, and the Internet arises not only from the types of behavior they encourage, but also from the other interests they supplant. Parents must take time to learn what their children are viewing and playing. Even the most superficial, inconsequential guidance can have a philosophical effect. While government can set forth, though public guidelines, what we as a society demand of us, parents should eventually assume the accountability of shaping their children to meet those