Campbell Brown Quotes

If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.

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.

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.

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

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

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

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

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 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.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

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.

As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a child's bedroom; this means that the mediating effect of watching with a parent, the ability to discuss and interpret what has been seen, is lost.

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

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.

My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.

My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.

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

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

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.

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.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

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.