Thinking about Violence
Most moms who come around to tell more experienced moms about how terrible "violence" is haven't even tried to define that term in their own minds. They will say a cartoon is "violent," or a TV show is "violent." Their children are probably sitting safely on a warm couch in a house with a locked door.
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"I better get back to tasering that gnome. I mean upgrading the taser... in that gnome...server " Strongbad and the effect of firewalls on people's imaginations, or something.
A: When the video ends, after Strongbad talks about playing Tetris in the men's room, click the word "work."
If A, then If not A then why are you still reading? Why even come to these pages if you're not going to cooperate? Go and taser those gnomes. It's for the sake of science, philosophy, and better parenting. |
Think about violence, and try to think open-mindedly and read some of this:
Peaceful Kids with Toy Guns (Sandra Dodd and many images of people's happy, smiling children) skip straight to the bottom of that page first
Does TV Cause Violence? (Deb Lewis)
TV and violence and such (Joyce Fetteroll)
ART: Bo King, channelling his recently-remembered childhood. The request for art was this:
"Bo, could you do me a couple of pieces of kid-art? In the style of an 8th grader doodling in a notebook, could you do me something like a knife dripping blood (color on the blood would be cool, especially if it looked like it had been colored with a colored pencil or a red-ink pen!) and maybe a tank firing?Bo outdid my expectations with all kinds of boy-doodles. Females in the viewership who had no brothers or sons might not appreciate this as much as male-related folk, but I hope they stir some memories and awareness in all you come by this page."If only I had saved some art from when I taught Jr. High English!!! It was everywhere in those rooms."