Dish Network- Helping Parents carry on What Young Children Watch
Sex, drugs, violence, nudity, and "coarse" language; it's all over television. It pulls in viewers, it's exciting, and sometimes realistic. However, these behaviors often are not what parents want their children to see or emulate. The inquire of the ensue on children appears to have been answered by a multitude of studies over the past 30 years or more.
A quick crusade online will narrate items such as a 15 year longitudinal study reported by the American Psychological connection that indicates children's viewing of violent Tv shows is linked to aggression in young adulthood for both sexes irregardless of intellectual abilities, social status, or parenting style.* An online crusade might also find the narrative on the American Academy of Child & teenage Psychiatry site which indicates that "Tv can be a distinguished work on in developing value systems and shaping behavior".** Media violence is said to ensue children of various ages differently, but reportedly has the most ensue on children who view violence which is not seen as evil or does not ensue in punishment, disapproval, or human suffering as explained in a narrative ready on the Media Awareness Network site.***
Parents have a number of options in trying to eliminate or cut their children's exposure to programming that they feel is inappropriate. Obviously, most services offer programming that is thorough for young children with shows such as Discovery Kids, the various Disney Channels, Nickelodeon, Nick Toons, BabyFirst Tv, and so forth. However, as most adults will want programming beyond the child focused offerings, satellite television and cable providers have offered parental controls for a number of years. Dish Network satellite receivers for instance all offer parental controls/system locks that allow users to restrict what programs can be viewed based on password protected locks. Viewing can be restricted by channel or by ratings.
Like most parental operate systems, Dish Network's software operates in conjunction with V-Chip technology. Users simply program the theory to restrict passage to unavoidable programming or, through their "Adult Guard" software, to thoroughly take off Adult Channels from the Electronic program Guide so that children can neither view the restricted programming nor passage programming facts through the guide. Once Dish Network's no-cost "Adult Guard" is programmed the locks will remain even when there is a Power outage.
Although Dish Network and other providers offer parental controls parents should be aware that other steps may be requisite to cut exposure to media that may have negative effects on young children. Experts caution that parents might need to be alert to the violence that is present in all things from cartoons, to music videos, and even many of the video games that are on the market.
Monitoring the media that children view is an leading step in controlling their exposure. Professionals also seem to agree that Watching with very young children and being able to discuss what they see can also help them to good understand when violence or other behavior is not thorough and what the consequences might genuinely be. Although it is very clear that parents should take an active role in managing the media ready to their young children and in helping them to justify what they see, satellite and cable television providers will need to continue to offer state-of-the-art controls to sustain parents when they simply cannot monitor every moment of their child's day.
*http://www.apa.org/releases/media_violence.html
**aacap.org/page.ww?section=Facts+for+Families&name=Children+And+Tv+Violence">http://www.aacap.org/page.ww?section=Facts+for+Families&name=Children+And+Tv+Violence
***[http://www.media-awareness.ca/English/resources/research_documents/reports/violence/tv_violence_child_cfm]
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