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"Influences On Children"

In today's hi-tech multimedia society what has the most positive influence on our children and which have a detrimental, Inappropriate or general bad influence on our children?
Please bear in mind the nature of our multimedia society, TV, Films, Music, Video Games, The Internet and lets not Telephones/Mobile. On the other side of the argument please bear in mind different cultures, religions, laws and of cause human rights including freedom of speach.
I will not post my views (yet) as I know my views but am interested in what other peoples views are.

thanks for that. I will. seeya

Good to see there are some women on here. Post any thing you like on the WLT. It is longer than Bearshare.net WLT.

yes i am a girl, well a woman actually.

Emmalou is right in a way. One question to emmalou are you a girl? I ask because someone had a topic that asked who were all the girl posters were. There was not many. But you have just arrived and I wondered about you.

I also think that tv is a bad influence on children. Not only do they look to characters in programs as role models,but they also imitate them. Its not just in films either, lots of younger children are influenced by cartoons.Daft as this may seem but childrens programs still put across violence, the characters fight, shoot guns etc and the worst thing is its made out to be fun. Don't get me wrong teletubbies is hardly violent, but you get what i'm on about. Children are still learning so if they are watching it on television and its, a character they like or respect thats doing something wrong, to them its ok. I have children and try to keep an eye on what they watch, but at the end of the day you cannot watch your child every waking minute, if they sleep out at a friends they might watch something you normally would not let them watch. Its very hard to specify what is right and what is wrong, at the end of the day all you can do is your best to show them its not all true, right or justified. Television programs where children are concerned do have a lot to answer for.

I think that TV has the worst effect on kids. I say that because kids come in from school and then just stare at it and it seems to brainwash them, it definately doesnt give them any good information.

I think that the most worrying form of multimedia is the internet. So much information cannot be good for children. It is so easy to look at anything you want which can be VERY bad.

I would say that the best form of media is books because they requre you to think, increase your vocabulary and it is much easier to keep check of what a kid is reading, then looking at web pages.

Seeya Ben

In today's hi-tech multimedia society what has the most positive influence on our children and which have a detrimental, Inappropriate or general bad influence on our children?
Please bear in mind the nature of our multimedia society, TV, Films, Music, Video Games, The Internet and lets not Telephones/Mobile. On the other side of the argument please bear in mind different cultures, religions, laws and of cause human rights including freedom of speach.
I will not post my views (yet) as I know my views but am interested in what other peoples views are.