Tionne Watkins Quotes

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.

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

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.

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

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.

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

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

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

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

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.

There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

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.

Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

TV is not a baby sitter.

I don't think a lot of people realize the influence TV has on our kids. Kids take a lot of their cues from it in their dress and their conduct.

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

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

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

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?'

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

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