It seems to me that there is more to it than just controlling & limiting the media's effect on what our children watch & the games they play. I agree, that control is definitely an important part but it isn't the only issue that is missing in the picture.

When we as parents started to eliminate teaching our children good moral values; respect & being curtiousof others, whether we like them or not; treating others the same way we want to be treated by them......(this has nothing to do with religion....it just has to do with basic respect of others). We started to eliminate these things from the training of our children about the time we decided that we didn't want to cram the same values down the throats of our children that we had cramed down out throats. After all, our children should be allowed the freedom we didn't have, to make up their own minds about their value system without anything to base it on. Just about the same time we decided that we shouldn't cram our values onto our children was about the same time the media decided they should increase the amount of violence & crime & hate they should cram down the throats of the public.

When we think that just by keeping our children away from the media's influence will do the trick.......we are missing the other piece of the puzzle that started being left out at the same time the media increased it's attack on the public. It's much easier to point all our fingers at the media....after all, look at all the horrible things that come from the media. That way the only responsibility we have to take is to keep our children away from that horrible media monster.

The problem is that even with our controlling the media influence on our children, there is still the void that has been created by our lack of accepting the responsibility as parents for training our children with the basic moral values, human respect & love for others that needs to be at the foundation of a successful, peaceful society.

Debbie