Bob Goff Quotes

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

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.

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 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.

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 kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

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.

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

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

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!

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.

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.