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In America, at least, hundreds of thousands of children lack this kind of interpretive guidance and are left to assimilate what they have seen in the so very inadequate context of the inexperienced child's mind.

A great observation. One my peeves is shock-and-awe marketing. It's fashionable to express concern about what our kids see in mainstream media production and its effect on their emotional development. And yet somehow--the steady hailstorm of highly sophisticated sales video to which they are exposed almost always gets a pass. If it's in pursuit of "free enterprise" it must be morally healthy, right? Very shortsighted, I think.

[QUOTE="boomerang, post: 215679, member: 3872"] In America, at least, hundreds of thousands of children lack this kind of interpretive guidance and are left to assimilate what they have seen in the so very inadequate context of the inexperienced child's mind. A great observation. One my peeves is shock-and-awe marketing. It's fashionable to express concern about what our kids see in mainstream media production and its effect on their emotional development. And yet somehow--the steady hailstorm of highly sophisticated sales video to which they are exposed almost always gets a pass. If it's in pursuit of "free enterprise" it must be morally healthy, right? Very shortsighted, I think. [/QUOTE]

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