they do in the classroom. The level of violence that they see on prime time

television is about five violent acts per hour and the level of violence on

Saturday that includes cartoons morning programming is about 20 to 25 violent

acts per hour. At this rate, the average American child will see 8,000 murders

before they finish elementary school!

As a child sits in front of baby-sitting television, her eyes are glued

to the viewing of shoot em' up rip em' up kind of entertainment. We have to

remember that the entertainment media plays an extremely powerful role in the

formation of values and morals, to all youngsters' minds of all ages, all

socioeconomic levels, and all levels of intelligence. These programs "play"

with kids' minds; these programs have a tremendous negative effect on our

Transformers and the Ninja Turtles, who engage in the destructive acts of

learn to think that's how they should solve their problems. MTV's Beavis and

the words of the father in Harry Chapin's song "Cat's in the Cradle" when he

society, especially our younger generation, to believe?

watch television with their children so they can help children understand that

most see that it only causes negative effects on our society. It is hard to

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