Although I agree that we do need to be careful, I think watching television would be far more corrupting that what is written in Pet Talk.

First of all, I don't think a younger child under the age of ten, would wade through all of the posts - mainly because most of it would be boring to them.

And, this is certainly a generalization, if you were to read some of the teenagers "journals" that appear on websites, they would make your hair stand on end. These kids get right down to it.......and every foul word that has ever been created is included in every sentence. If you know how to use a computer and have the site address - it is available to anyone to read.

Recently, I have had the 4:00 PM news on and as they review the days events on the Kobe "situation" I was surprised by the very explicit information the newscasters talked about. At the time, I thought about my own 9 years old niece. What if she had heard that and turned to me for an explanation. She isn't allowed to watch television until the weekends and is then supervised. But a lot of kids are not supervised and they DO hear it. And they are hearing far worse than they would ever read on Pet Talk.

We have a strange large home in our area that has caused an uproar. It is stark white and there is a semi-circle of statues of David along the driveway. There must be 25 of them. They also have two cars - both are flaming orange. It sits on a corner of a main street. I drove by with my 9 year old niece and she commented "I just don't get it - a pure white house and two orange cars." She never mentioned the statues.

At Christmas time, every one of the statues wears a Santa hat.

In a nutshell what I am trying to express is that the real world is far more harming to a child than anything that has ever appeared on Pet Talk.