Lauren Myracle Quotes

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.

My main concern is my kids. And I don't want them to see or hear anything on TV that I didn't discuss with them.

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.

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!

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

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.

We have pleaded to the entertainment industry to raise their standards and protect our children.

I feel like covering my children's eyes when they watch television. It's better that they spend their time doing something constructive.

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

Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.

Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.

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.

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 would never put my kids in front of the camera.

If you are irresponsible as a parent and don't know what your kids are watching, that's your problem. It's not the creator's duty to create every show in a way that a six-year-old can watch it.

I won't let my daughter watch 'EastEnders.'

I saw a lot of stuff growing up as a young kid that I don't want my kids seeing.

I don't look at certain things on TV anymore. I don't listen to certain music anymore. I make sure my kids don't listen to it. It's funny because back in the days I could look at comedy shows and all kind of stuff and you didn't even realize how much cursing it had in it.

Yeah, it's every parent's worst nightmare, to lose connection with your children, to not fully engage with them or have an understanding of what crowd of people they're mixing with, what they are watching online.

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.

There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.

When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

If I had kids, I'd probably be way over-protective, researching everything they begged to see to make sure the content was appropriate.

Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.

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.