Jon Scieszka Quotes

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

Television's not going read stories to you.

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.

I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen or pod as from glued quires of printed pages.

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

TV is not a baby sitter.

I don't think a lot of people realize the influence TV has on our kids. Kids take a lot of their cues from it in their dress and their conduct.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.