Sheila Thomas  
TV and Video Games are destroying the values of the
youth. Have you ever wondered why so many of our youth are
influenced by watching television? What about the violent video games that most
children have and play.  Many studies
showed that the crimes are committed by youth and is not just from their
upbringing unfortunately it could be a combination of the two. But mostly
television has the attention of many children.
American families today watch entirely too much
television. Television is nothing compared to how it used to be in the mid
80’s. Can you remember a time when there were good shows that exposed violence?
What about Sexual enhancements? Never. The reason behind all of this is simple
the media then was more based on family traditions, not once had the media betrayed
family as corrupt with violence. Children then were more appreciative of
television why because as a child you did not have the opportunity to watch
what you wanted to watch. We only were allowed to watch what our parents were
watching or nothing. Family values were highly stressed until now.
Television of today has overturned the family values
learned as a child when watching the television. Television continue to give us
no idea on how a family should be or what it is like to be apart of a family. Violent
crimes do not make a family, so why do we have to watch it, as if it is a part
of being a family.
As parents of youth we need to be more interactive
as to what our children typically watch daily. In some cases we should watch
television with them just to see their reactions as to what happened. Allow
them voice their opinions and you voice your concerns. Disapprove of violent
filming in front of them. Find other ventures to do other than spend a whole
lot of time watching television.  

Researcher have said over and over that it is not
our children’s fault it’s the media and our children are intrigued by what the
see and hear and they begin to reenact on them as if it was a reality. As
parents we need to set limits to how much we allow our children to watch
television or play certain video games without all the violence thereof.
Even though the crimes are caused from watching
television (what some would call the blue tube) are the results from re-enactment
as if it was a problem solver. Or perhaps see it as being real.  Crime rates in America have a great impact on
our children because; our children basically are the one’s that are committing these
violent crimes.
Dec 13th 2007 06:52