During the past decade, violence with children has become a serious problem. On February 2, 1996, a 14-year-old boy opened fire as he walked into his junior high algebra class. He shot and killed his teacher, two of his peers and injured others. A year later, a sixteen-year-old boy stabs his mother to death, then proceeds to school and shoots 9 of his peers. In the sa

The need to change is becoming more vital every year. According to the surgeon general, American children spend, on average, more than 4 hours a day with television, whether it is computers, videotaped movies or video games and the average amount a child that is nine to fourteen years old sleeps about 9 hours a day. This means that out of the 8760 hours of the year, 3285 is spent sleeping, so that gives you a total of 5475 hours a child is active. From this, I can presume that 34 percent of a child’s life is wasted on watching television. Another study that was conducted showed that a whopping 61 percent of television programs contain some sort of violence and only four percent out of these television programs have an “antiviolence” theme. An even more disturbing statistic is that nearly 75 percent of these violent scenes have no punishment or disapproval of violence. So, what is the media trying to insinuate? There will be no punishment if you do something wrong. Children learn through other people actions.

We must find a solution to this problem and we must act now or things will only get worse. Parent must make sure that their children are watching appropriate shows according to their

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