Quote Originally Posted by mom-in-alberta View Post
....I think that the topic is connected, because I see these aggressive little kids and find out that they watch UFC with Daddy. "Gee, I don't know WHY Johnny is punching his friends." Well, what do you think is going to happen??
Yes I have seen this over and over in my career ... I had one little dude who was the most gentle caring empathetic soul I had ever seen ... a 3 year old with an old soul that everyone one would have cloned ....and than his dad decide he was old enough to be introduced to the 'dark side' and let him start watching Star Wars and after two weeks of dealing with HORRIBLE behaviors as he emulated the 'Dark Elevator' I had to finally go to the clients and say 'either the aggressive TV at home goes or your child goes ~you choose! As unfortunately the change in his behavior adjusting to these programs is not appropriate and cannot be tolerated in my program' ... it took another month after dad promised no more 'adult' shows would be watched but the kid turned it around ... and I do not care if I 'over stepped' my place in their right to parent how they choose cause they were free to choose to LEAVE if they valued letting him watch those shows and behave like that all I was letting them know was that HERE that value and behavior is not acceptable and since this is my house I have the right to only allow certain things

I will never understand why we feel the need to expose our children to violence like that at such young ages .... innocent little beings ... I get that it is natural for human beings to want to explore concepts of good and bad but it does not need to be the extent and graphics that these shows are specially if children will be watching them!