Word: watching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...postage-stamp towns in part for the excellent schools. "This is Marxism," howls novelist John Irving, whose son is a Dorset kindergartner. "It's leveling everything by decimating what works... It's that vindictive 'We've suffered, and now we're going to take money from your kid and watch you squirm...
...morning cartoons. Brett, a 14-year-old in Denver, says it doesn't matter to him whether his parents chat with him about sex or not because he gets so much from TV. Whenever he's curious about something sexual, he channel-surfs his way to certainty. "If you watch TV, they've got everything you want to know," he says. "That's how I learned to kiss, when I was eight. And the girl told me, 'Oh, you sure know...
Even if kids don't watch certain television shows, they know the programs exist and are bedazzled by the forbidden. From schoolyard word of mouth, eight-year-old Jeff in Chicago has heard all about the foul-mouthed kids in the raunchily plotted South Park, and even though he has never seen the show, he can describe certain episodes in detail. (He is also familiar with the AIDS theme of the musical Rent because he's heard the CD over and over.) Argentina, 16, in Detroit, says, "TV makes sex look like this big game." Her friend Michael, 17, adds...
Instead, you can do plenty of things at home to protect your kids. Keep your computer in a public place--a family room rather than a bedroom--and watch where your children are clicking. Teach your kids safe computing: though talking to strangers can be a fun part of online communicating in chat rooms and such, never give real names, addresses or phone numbers. Don't even reveal gender or age. Explain that most sites that ask them to register for prizes are only trawling for info that can be used in annoying ways...
Software for filtering out smut has got downright sneaky. Prudence from Blue Wolf Network in Berkeley, Calif., keeps a hidden log of all websites kids visit so parents can monitor them on the sly. Meanwhile, Surf-Watch Educational Edition at once blocks X-rated sites and diverts kids to educational sites such as the Children's Television Workshop and the Tech Museum of Innovation...