Barbara Hale Quotes

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?

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

I got an early education from television.

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

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

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.

When I was a boy, there were three influences on children. The school, the family, and the church. Now there is a fourth---television.

I don't really find a problem with technology or television or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

I think I got my education as a young boy from things I saw on TV.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

The role of TV at the core of the family is that of an electric nanny.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

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

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.