Agreed, but dealing with the immediate effects is nearly as tiring as worrying about lasting damage.jamin_za wrote:which is not to say they cannot be scared by TV events - just that the chance for lasting damage is negligible.
Spoken like a true teenager.THE_STIG wrote:They will be exactly the same.....advertisements can't possibly cause problems
Stuart wrote:Agreed, but dealing with the immediate effects is nearly as tiring as worrying about lasting damage.jamin_za wrote:which is not to say they cannot be scared by TV events - just that the chance for lasting damage is negligible.
I wish Neka was afraid of Barney.lancelot wrote:The fine should of been around the R5000000 mark, it costs me R5000 to fill my truck with diesel.
Yes, little ones feel fear, not of just the visuals but because of the accompanying sounds of terror, screaming and crying.
If you cannot understand or grasp this, I suggest that you have have a look at little ones who have been brought up in an environment of violence, constant arguing and other parental abuse. Many children are afraid of Barney, Santa and other perceived monsters, take note and sort it out. My grandson gets upset if I shout at taxi drivers but laughs if I hoot, so now I only hoot!
We've noticed the emotional scars, yes.Bladerunner wrote:When I was three I was told to shut up and go to bed or I'd get a reason to cryStuart wrote:I have a three year old who gets nightmares by watching disturbing images she may not understand.
It's a miracle I turned out to be the well-adjusted individual that I am today.doo_much wrote:We've noticed the emotional scars, yes.Bladerunner wrote:When I was three I was told to shut up and go to bed or I'd get a reason to cryStuart wrote:I have a three year old who gets nightmares by watching disturbing images she may not understand.
You don't have kids, do you?IcePick88 wrote:I don't know what all the fuss is about.
It's like we are moving towards the US mentality.
Complaining about small petty things.
Yes, images such as this can be disturbing to younger children and they might have nightmares. Boo-hoo. They will get over it as I did, and I turned out ok.
If M-Net continually showed/advertised these things on a regular basis in those "family" slot times, then fine. Complain. But don't get your panties in a knot about a possible one time thing.
Shees, seems people have nothing else to do than complain complain complain. I get the feeling there is people out there just sitting...waiting for someone to do something wrong and then they gather the town folk, grab their pitchforks and stakes and storm the castle.
No I don't but I was not brought up in front of a TV.Stuart wrote:You don't have kids, do you?IcePick88 wrote:I don't know what all the fuss is about.
It's like we are moving towards the US mentality.
Complaining about small petty things.
Yes, images such as this can be disturbing to younger children and they might have nightmares. Boo-hoo. They will get over it as I did, and I turned out ok.
If M-Net continually showed/advertised these things on a regular basis in those "family" slot times, then fine. Complain. But don't get your panties in a knot about a possible one time thing.
Shees, seems people have nothing else to do than complain complain complain. I get the feeling there is people out there just sitting...waiting for someone to do something wrong and then they gather the town folk, grab their pitchforks and stakes and storm the castle.
And misogyny and incest and genocide and and and... but thats only vaguely relevant to this discussionPrime wrote:And yet the same adults who are complaining would happily send their kids to Sunday school and subject them to religious teachings which are full of violence.
You do?fallen_angel wrote:I have a kid
I hate to break it to you, but it is precisely a parent's job to shelter their children from things in the world that will prove harmful to them. If you plan not to shelter your kids from harmful stuff, rather give them up for adoption when they are born.IcePick88 wrote: You cannot shelter your kids from the world like fallen said.
Then how are they meant to learn? Granted there are some very dangerous items in the household where baby gloves are required but its the responsibility of the parent to make sure those items are kept away/out of reach of the said child. This whole thing about keeping kids from seeing horror ads well thats just silly but again its age dependent. And in this case airing the promo at 18:00 that is a wrong time but what is on T.V. at 18:00 for kids? If memory serves it's all garbage anyway Egoli and such crud and lets be honest if you have your child watching that you are damaging them anyway, teaching them murder and backstabbing is alright and how to form bad relationships.Stuart wrote: I hate to break it to you, but it is precisely a parent's job to shelter their children from things in the world that will prove harmful to them. If you plan not to shelter your kids from harmful stuff, rather give them up for adoption when they are born.
Removing the N Word from Huck Finn: Top 10 Censored Books
As publishers print a new version of Mark Twain's classic 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' without racial slurs, TIME takes a look at other books that have been bowdlerized
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain Friday, Jan. 07, 2011
In 1885, the Concord Public Library in Massachusetts banned the year-old book for its "coarse language" — critics deemed Mark Twain's use of common vernacular (slang) as demeaning and damaging. A reviewer dubbed it "the veriest trash ... more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people." Little Women author Louisa May Alcott lashed out publicly at Twain, saying, "If Mr. Clemens [Twain's original name] cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses he had best stop writing for them." (That the N word appears more than 200 times throughout the book did not initially cause much controversy.) In 1905, the Brooklyn Public Library in New York followed Concord's lead, banishing the book from the building's juvenile section with this explanation: "Huck not only itched but scratched, and that he said sweat when he should have said perspiration." Twain enthusiastically fired back, and once said of his detractors: "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." Luckily for him, the book's fans would eventually outnumber its critics. "It's the best book we've had," Ernest Hemingway proclaimed. "All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."
Despite Hemingway's assurances, Huckleberry Finn remains one of the most challenged books in the U.S. In an attempt to avoid controversy, CBS produced a made-for-TV adaptation of the book in 1955 that lacked a single mention of slavery and did not have an African American portray the character of Jim. In 1998, parents in Tempe, Ariz., sued the local high school over the book's inclusion on a required reading list. The case went as far as a federal appeals court; the parents lost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_(2004_film)Stuart wrote:fallen_angel wrote:I have a kidI hate to break it to you, but it is precisely a parent's job to shelter their children from things in the world that will prove harmful to them. If you plan not to shelter your kids from harmful stuff, rather give them up for adoption when they are born.IcePick88 wrote: You cannot shelter your kids from the world like fallen said.
Reminds me of this.It is revealed that the village was actually founded some time in the late 1970s, when Edward Walker, professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, approached other people he met at a grief counseling clinic after his father had been murdered. He asked them if they wished to join him in "an idea" he had. From this apparently grew "the village," a secluded town in the middle of a wildlife preserve purchased with Edward's family fortune, a place where they would be protected from any aspect of the outside world.
Sooner or later, yes. They will also sooner or later experience traffic. Does that mean I should leave my gate open while she plays outside and if I find her playing in the middle of the highway I should just shrug my shoulders and say that she would have eventually experienced highway traffic anyway?IcePick88 wrote: It's inevitable that they will sooner or later experience something like these adds, but at least you can explain that the adds are not real.
, all gays should be burned.....THE_STIG wrote:WTF are you doing with a gay mag
Didn't know the You was a gay mag....Tribble wrote:Yes they do find magazines. I really don't think my 5year old needed to know what gay was and why gays kill their lovers (You magazine front cover). You cannot protect them completely - but you can do the best that you can.
Scarry thoughtStuart wrote:You do?fallen_angel wrote:I have a kid
Hes turning 7 this yearI could not have said it better myself. The fact of the matter is that WHEN they do come across something disturbing like the ad or Bruce the shark, best to do is be a parent and work through the situation rather than going on a rampage and cursing the creators... like the whole debacle with pokemon and yu-gi-oh being satanistic... which actually turned in court and what happened? It was still showing at the same timeslotTribble wrote:You cannot protect them completely - but you can do the best that you can.
Ja, I don't know why, but this took me by surprise. Never pictured a fallen_angel with a kid.fallen_angel wrote:Scarry thoughtStuart wrote:You do?fallen_angel wrote:I have a kid
Me too, how is a cartoon satanicfallen_angel wrote:The argument they (anglican and methodist churches) raised was that the symbols used in said programs was from the budhist believe and henceforth because it is not christian it has to be satanic... I just started laughing
