When third graders attack.....

[Catlady711]

If children are so good at distinguishing fact from fiction...why is Harry Potter so popular...Santa Claus, ET, and Snow White?

Ok I'm baffled here. What do any of these movies have to do with distiguishing fact from fiction? I happen to own all the videos of these movies, and when I was a kid my fav. shows were Buck Rogers, A-Team and WWF (back when it wasn't full of half naked ladies and foul language). I'm neither violent nor have issues with thinking fiction is fact. Actually thanks to my mom's teaching, I tend to check out everything with Snopes that come into my inbox, I doubt every wild story I hear until I check it out first, and am skeptical as all heck. But that could be a reverse problem I have, who knows.

I don't think it's so much about the particular shows kids watch (although it can infuence them somewhat) but it's the LACK of parents intervening to teach lessons on right and wrong and knowing what their kids are doing.

But then again the world seems to be more interested in 'situational ethics' rather than any type of right is right and wrong is wrong thinking. JMHO

[RICHARD]

Now that I think about it.....

Reading materials also have a huge influence on people.


Playboy made me want to look at nude women.

[Catlady711]

Now that I think about it.....

Reading materials also have a huge influence on people.


Playboy made me want to look at nude women.

Ok forgive the generalizing here but...

Richard this is assuming the kids today actually READ. Seems I'm seeing more and more of them that play video games, surf the net and if they happen to go outside are more interested in destroying property than playing sports. Our library is sadly lacking in many youth coming in except to use the computers.

[RICHARD]

Ok forgive the generalizing here but...

Richard this is assuming the kids today actually READ. Seems I'm seeing more and more of them that play video games, surf the net and if they happen to go outside are more interested in destroying property than playing sports. Our library is sadly lacking in many youth coming in except to use the computers.

You are correct, I was spending way too much time with the pics and not the text.

Check out the abbreviations and lack of spelling skills because the parents want the kids to have cell phones.

"I want little Pugsley to have a phone -in case something happens in school and they need to get a hold of me."

When your idiot kid gets thrown out of class for sending messages, answering the phone or watching videos, you will run to the principal and blame the teacher for violating your spawn's rights.


Oh, And you will get the phone call from your kid when the fit hits the shan...just in time to experience their last breath....because they were too busy dialing the phone instead of running away.