Thus summarizes the thoughts of my mother on media consumption. Yet this is somewhat of a simplistic description of her thoughts and philosophy. As the oldest of three children I've witnessed not only my mother's rules and practices, but also the growth and development of my siblings and how media and other outlets have affected them.
In comparison to many of my peers the controls and restrictions that my parents have exercised have been fairly light in comparison. Depending on academic performance and behavior t.v. time was allowed on weekends and occasionally during the week. Video games were tied to t.v. time. Computer usage was less restricted, although a distinction was made regarding computer games which, being video games, were regulated as such.
The restrictions on content were treated much more strictly. For the most part they've use the rating guidelines to determine what we watched, but depending on the movie we were allowed to see more "mature" content. As far as television was concerned my siblings and I never had much of an issue. The reason why I believe was because our parents would watch t.v. with us during our favorite sitcoms. They never watched cartoons with us, but those were mostly harmless anyways.
It's hard to criticize your parents, but all in all I think they did a good job. I feel that their influence always superseded that of media and was a voice of reason in the noise and chaos.
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