Chaz Bono Quotes

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'

My children aren't normally allowed to watch a lot of things that I'm in.

Adults should be intelligent enough to know what they want - if you don't like it, then don't consume it. A rating system for kids and teens is more important. Especially for violent shows.

I guess with a Netflix show, if you're a kid, it's all dependent on how you're raised and if you have access to it.

We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.

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.

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

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.

Unless you have kids, you actually have no idea what kids are watching on TV these days.

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.

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.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.

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'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.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

I was brought up when media still kept totally away from violence when it came to children. I don't think it would have made me scared of violence, but I find it repulsive.

If it's something that you are opposed to or you don't want your children or family to see, then do not watch it, and the market can send a message.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

As a parent, you're struggling to find stuff that you think is suitable for the kids, but also stuff that you'd like to watch with them.

Let children come across good as well as bad things. MTV is unnecessarily criticised for dishing out obscenity.