THAT IS SO AWESOME.

I should mention though, my parents let me watch Jerry Springer and Maury when I was little but the would always say to study closely what low life trashy people are like, and they'll never get anywhere and these are things you definitely don't want to do.

Pretty progressive for traditional asian parents at any rate.

We were otherwise allowed to watch only documentaries, like Nature or the discovery or history channel until we were 13.

When I say trying, I don't mean they had a hard time with it or anything, they were actually disciplining her about something and she did that. Made both their jaws hit the floor--they are a military family so that was definitely not tolerated.

Extremely well behaved and mature kid now.

I agree. The words were also taken out of context for that particular scenario. They didn't realize the influence it had until that moment.

I was the kid that stood there quietly while getting lectured (and if one of us got the lecture, both of us did), my sister on the other hand would try to crawl into my parents laps and pretend to also be on the lecturing side. They'd have to put her back next to me.

Different strokes for different kids. Some are inherently more rebellious than others.

Absolutely. I pre-record programmes for my 4 and 6 year old so they watch very little 'live' TV, but as soon as your children enter a peer group in childcare or at school the influence of TV, music and films will start to seep through. My 4 year old boy has virtually no exposure to programmes which feature fighting, because I think it's pretty hard to teach a small child that fighting and hitting is bad when it's glorified on the TV, but his friends at school will come in with figurines, or enact fighting scenes from films and cartoons, and surprise surprise pretty soon BS4 was referring to bits of duplo and construction sets as 'swords' or 'guns'.

Nobody is a weak parent because their child exhibits challenging behaviour, you're only a weak parent if you fail to deal with effectively. And God knows even then it's easy to make mistakes, these little people don't come with a handbook and they're all different!

I grew up on reading rainbow lol now in got the song stuck in my head. In our house we limit tv time to two hours a day and I monitor what they watch even innocent seeming cartoons are questionable this days. But its the outside world also influencing our kids SS5 goes to a private pre-12 christian school and he still came home saying how a boy in his class told a little girl to suck his sausage smh. It all comes down to how u parent them and teach them right from wrong and just because someone on tv slams a door doesn't mean you can and if someone at school says a bad word u don't repeat it. I dread the teen years when they try to be sneaky and do stupid things to impress their friends all we can do is teach them right from wrong and hope that when they grow up they will use their better judgment. I made mistakes growing up but I knew better and I was always worried about disappointing my parents so I strove to make them proud. I hope my kids turn out that way but better than me and DH.