Family Day By Day : หน้า 72/216 Explore strategies for instilling morality in children through media choices, including TV programs, games, and internet usage.
Part Two: Raising Children
with morality. Programs that are scary, frightening,
sexual, or that deal with revenge and killing should
not be watched. We should select the television
programs that promote virtue and intellectual
development (i. e. programs about sharing, loving,
kindness and devotion.) They can watch programs
on science and technology, or art and culture. This
enables them to learn more about their country,
culture and background. Virtuous knowledge found
in education TV programs can serve as a foundation
for vision and wisdom in their future.
Remember, it always comes back to us, the parents,
to be a good example for our children! If we are addicted
to television, it will be a difficult challenge to prevent our
children from becoming addicted, too. Therefore, between the
choices of fostering good habits in our children and allowing
the children to watch their favorite television programs,
we should choose what is in their best interest as the main
priority.
The same goes for "gaming". Since the video game
industry has been allowing more violent games to be produced
and marketed each year to young people, it is more likely
that children will be exposed to violence at an increasingly
earlier age. As always, be careful of the games we allow
our children to play. If there are excellent educational video
games available: Choose them!
Internet: Today we live in the era of the "information
superhighway". Children are addicted to television, DVD's,
cell phones and especially the internet. We must accept the
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