My husband watches wrestling (I think its their soap opera) and when the kids were young they watched it with him. My daughter still does. What I don't understand is why you are connecting his behavorial problems with TV. Are you suggesting that watching wrestling is the cause of his problems?
I too wonder where you draw the line. My boys all LOVED power rangers. At 2 they knew their colors because of power rangers. I used to love to watch the three of them play for hours re-enacting the "battles" that they saw.
And now that I think of it, they re-enacted the wrestling too. No one was hurt in this play. I don't know how big actual wrestling is in your community, but ours had a program for 4 year olds to beging training in wrestling. Our kids lost interest in it around 6 years of age, but it might be something to think about. They run off a bunch of energy, learn discipline, meet new people.
The show that I objected to (I just saw wrestling as stupid, not dangerous in any way) was South Park. My 7 year old was running around saying "you bastard, you killed Kenny" not knowing he was repeating a bad word. I threatened hubby's life if he watched it again with our kids in the room.
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