Freaks and Geeks

[susanmcgee48176]

> montims:
> 
> I'm not flaming, and I'm not judging, and I admire people who make 
a stand
> on something and stick to it, but I can't really understand this 
particular
> stand (though I will, of course, defend your right to have it!)  
Does it
> really matter what words they hear, or are used in the household, 
as long as
> the general impression is one of love and harmony?  Does hearing 
unpleasant
> characters in a tv programme swear automatically make a child 
swear?  Does
> watching a child shoot up a school make all children shoot up 
schools?  I
> would have thought the moral grounding would lead the child to be 
disgusted
> by certain behaviour, and not want to emulate it...
> 
> 
I don't feel flamed or judged.

The first issue for me -- why we don't have commercial television...
it's the dailyness of it. Some parents have a filter, or rigidly 
monitor what their kids are watching. This is not a value thing, but 
I'd just as soon do without it. Otherwise, the kids are cheating, and 
we're police officers all the time. I feel that most of what is on 
television, and most of the commercials, promote values that I don't 
like. Yes, violence, yes constant explicit sexual references, but 
also banality, cynicism, blase-ness, lack of enthusiasm, boredom, 
etc. etc. Or the only way you can enjoy life is to party all the time.
It seeps into kids' imagination.

Re: profanity..it's a thin line between "gosh, look at the fucking 
mess I made" and "fuck you." 

I don't want to hear it from my children; I don't want them using it 
to each other, and I don't want ANYONE wincing when my child opens 
his or her mouth.

As you say, we all have different parenting values.

Susan