tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819267004410198346.post4940606362187844425..comments2023-06-07T12:19:10.213+01:00Comments on BeautySwot: The Friday ColumnBettina@BeautySwothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10083610184683690471noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819267004410198346.post-50209182922550720292011-08-12T20:06:28.459+01:002011-08-12T20:06:28.459+01:00My friend's children were about 2 when the pla...My friend's children were about 2 when the planes hit the twin towers. They had the news on and the little ones started crashing there toys together. From then on they kept the TV off whilst the children were up. I took a lesson from this when mine came along and banned all but child related TV if they were in the room. I'd grown up in a house where we were only allowed to watch BBC because of the adverts on ITV and new it helped with averting pester power. There were only 3 channels then and it was way before 24 hour programming. I guess it wasn't such a big deal for our parents when it came to limiting what we watched. I found it really hard to be alone at home and purposefully deprive myself of TV. So I'm not saying it's easy, but I think it was well worth it. The lack of pester power in my kids is marked. And having a child who was queried as having Aspergers the coping mechanisms for dealing with the scenes we witnessed this week would just not have been there. Now with the children all at school I felt that seeing the news this week was appropriate and we have had lots of questions, but no fear. Sometimes we can't protect kids from seeing things like in your case where it was all around you. But, and I don’t in anyway say this as a criticism, but as a talking point, I think in our 24 hour media world we’ve forgotten the off button. More recently I was listening to a radio 4 programme about violence in teenage and even pre-teen relationships. Social media affords a level of control and always togetherness that we never had to face. Again, no off button from the relationship. Sorry, I didn’t mean to write so much, but it’s really got me thinking. xxSparklz and Shinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07508302887446218534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2819267004410198346.post-18614225578073039882011-08-12T16:01:32.617+01:002011-08-12T16:01:32.617+01:00I've just blogged about the same thing... It h...I've just blogged about the same thing... It has indeed been a sad week.Vic at Blossom and Snowflakeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08966363860714282224noreply@blogger.com