J. J. Abrams Quotes

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

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

Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

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.

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

I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

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.

The things kids can do on screens can be really delightful - if they are age appropriate. But no, they shouldn't spend all their time on a screen; they should split up their time doing multiple, different things.

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

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

Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

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 think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

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.

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.