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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 411034" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Yes... I feel the education of a child (in the broadest sense) is partly about watering the good seeds... And a lot of seeds that are planted on modern TV are surely not good. Vicious violence that becomes banal, completely unreal... the problem seems to me, just as you say, that empathy for others' suffering disappears and it just becomes a kind of joke. This deadening of compassion is, to me, worrying. Of course in a small child violence is kind of unreal. Just tonight when we were playing cars (one of the sacrifices I have to make in not having a TV is that I have to play cars... this is a noble deed on my part <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />), my son started saying things like "I'm going to BURN the policeman up now in the fire" to which I respond, "oh dear, poor policeman, that is really going to hurt him, do you think you should do that?" which may sound like more English middle class silliness but I think this is the important thing to convey to children while they are still so young and impressionable... that others are like them, and that others feel just as they feel.</p><p></p><p>I see that my son has a great "energy of aggression" in him. He has always had it, he brought it with him. It is just an energy at the moment, not necessarily dangerous or "bad" but like some kind of fire that needs careful tending, perhaps... He is also often kind hearted, very loving and empathetic. So I don't feel like anything is set in stone. But I do feel concerned about exposing him to violence, teaching him implicitly that "it doesn't matter"...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 411034, member: 11227"] Yes... I feel the education of a child (in the broadest sense) is partly about watering the good seeds... And a lot of seeds that are planted on modern TV are surely not good. Vicious violence that becomes banal, completely unreal... the problem seems to me, just as you say, that empathy for others' suffering disappears and it just becomes a kind of joke. This deadening of compassion is, to me, worrying. Of course in a small child violence is kind of unreal. Just tonight when we were playing cars (one of the sacrifices I have to make in not having a TV is that I have to play cars... this is a noble deed on my part :-)), my son started saying things like "I'm going to BURN the policeman up now in the fire" to which I respond, "oh dear, poor policeman, that is really going to hurt him, do you think you should do that?" which may sound like more English middle class silliness but I think this is the important thing to convey to children while they are still so young and impressionable... that others are like them, and that others feel just as they feel. I see that my son has a great "energy of aggression" in him. He has always had it, he brought it with him. It is just an energy at the moment, not necessarily dangerous or "bad" but like some kind of fire that needs careful tending, perhaps... He is also often kind hearted, very loving and empathetic. So I don't feel like anything is set in stone. But I do feel concerned about exposing him to violence, teaching him implicitly that "it doesn't matter"... [/QUOTE]
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