Johnny Ball Quotes

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.

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.

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.

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.

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

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

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids.

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

I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.

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

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.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.

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.

TV is not a baby sitter.

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?'

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

I don't know if I trust entertainment to teach anyone anything.

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

I've always felt that kids are a lot smarter than we've given them credit for, but we've never given them a chance to figure things out as they're watching television.

When I meet parents in my children's school, they say there aren't good films for kids to watch. I wonder about the lack of such films too. What do my kids watch?