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Empty Heads

When children are born their heads are completely empty. It has always been this way. Unlike animals, human children remain small and dependant for many years. During these years human parents are to fill their children's heads with the information necessary for surviving and living in society. This parenting duty may be the most important thing there is in life. Until very recently in our world's history, parents with the help of extended family members, performed this duty themselves.

In our society parents allow the majority of their child's head-filling to be done by school and TV. When the child goes to school his head does formal learning which is the planned curriculum. Formal information is taught by both good and bad teachers who do not care nearly as much about your children as you do. In the school the child also does informal learning. This information is unplanned and is for the most part provided by other empty-headed children.

TV also plays a big part in filling the modern parental vacuum. The information put in the child's head by the TV is mostly informal. It is planned information but it is designed by businesses that are trying to separate viewers from their money. I do not think TV is a good head-filler for a child. The TV does not care about the child and is only trying to hold the child's attention while it tries to sell him cereal, candy and toys. What goes in a child's head is very important. If parents understand this they should keep their children away from TV. It is not hard for a parent to be more beneficial to their child then a TV.

Some people take parenting very seriously. They do not let their children watch TV and they also home school them. These parents want to and can spend a lot of time performing their parental duty of filling their children's heads with what they believe is the right information. These parents do not take half measures in their roles as parents.

Because of the nature of modern times it is difficult to home school children but it is not difficult to remove the television. It is natural for parents to spend countless hours with their children and without the TV interfering this is likely to happen.

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