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Remember these days in most instances, television is a media of choice. Most televisions must be hooked up to a paid service in order to get anything on the screen.

Years ago it was much simpler to get something to watch on your tv. A coat hanger and some wire could bring in at least two or three of the local channels. You were extremely limited to the programs you could watch.

Through the years technology has brought us to the point where it is common to have two hundred or more channels to watch at all hours of the day and night. Not much of the programming available on these channels could be considered quality television, but it is available.

Major corporations have thrown the television industry into their own hands, by most times charging riduculous prices for mostly junk programming. If you could select the exact channels you would like to watch and just receive those channels, it would not be such a problem. Instead, they sell you packages with all sorts of channels in them. Most of them are not what I would want my children to watch.

This brings us to the subject of parental controls. Your television service provider should include some type of equipment that allows you to ban certain channels from your children. Until they reach a certain age, you are in control of what your children do or do not watch in your household. It is up to you as a responsible parent to limit their watching of television to programs that supply some benefit or are positive programming.

If more parents would take action and stick together on this, the problem would not be so severe. There are way too many negative and harmful things on television. Many of these can have a negative impact on a child that can affect them for years. It is not the sex on television that is the problem. It is the violence, absurdity, and negative values that are causing the trouble in society today.

Somewhere amongst all of this junk there is indeed high quality television, but it takes some research to locate the channels. Children need a well rounded upbringing. There is nothing wrong with them watching some good programming. Something that entertains them and promotes positive qualities and inspiration can help them become enlightened adults.

There are some programs on PBS, science channels, and the History Channel that allow visual aid to present a topic in a way no book or class ever could. There is nothing wrong with enhancing certain subjects with a good television program.

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