I am sorry that I go off into a rant today but I have something which I have to get off my chest. I am a MOM after all, a Mom On a Mission!
Yesterday I visited a friend with a newborn baby, and as is usual in Portuguese families, the television was blaring on the background. Now, for me, that is enough reason to stay only for a short time, the noise and the blown-up emotions and fights splattering their exaggerated energy throughout the room is not my piece of cake, but alas, it is their choice (if they are aware of the fact that it is a choice.. which I do doubt. But anyway, that’s another blogpost.
This involuntary watching brought me to the following thoughts:
This in NOT normal.
Now I am certainly not a Victorian mom, and I am not against modern life at all.
I do live in this world, and I see the freedom and the opportunities that we and our children have, that our parents never experienced in their youth.
But
For me there is a certain amount of information that a child can cope with. In the families of today, there is much more trouble, emotional havoc, divorces, fights for the children to witness. No, it wasn’t better in the old days. But children were kept out of the wind. “Not for little ears” was a sentence that I heard a lot, and I hated it. But in retrospect, I am very grateful that my Mom and Dad chose to protect us from the heavy adult emotions that entered our family.
So
What I want to know from you is this:
Do you think it is normal, that young children watch programs with these scenes?
Do you think it does our children any good to watch the news?
Actually…
Do you think it does you any good to watch the news?
I’d love to hear your comments in the comment box below!
