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Originally posted by ARTelevision
As far as I am concerned, children are raised by the mass media. Period.
The silly romantic idea that parents still do anything that remotely competes with the processes of acculturation is a self-congratulatory myth.
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The single most important thing a parent can do is to build understanding before allwoing exposure. My mother ripped out pages of Time and Newsweek that were too graphic for my maturity level, she guided me to my room with a good book to avoid exposing me to the Gulf War on TV, she didn't let me play with toy guns because she firmly believed that guns are not toys. Violent movies were out of the question unti lI could separate fantasy from reality.
Unfortunately, she smothered my with a traditional Catholic brainwashing, indocrinating with the delusion that sex is evil, and that much of what I could do would result in a quick trip to hell. I took almost 15 years to break out of that, but now, at 20, I think for myself and fully intend to pass on the good that my parents did, an avoid the bad.