If you don’t watch out for what your child watches, you leave your child prey to such shows as the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Saturday morning TV programs. In addition to offering virtually no educational value, these shows average about two dozen acts of violence per hour. What’s even worse, most of this violence has virtually no consequences. After all, how many times can Wile E. Coyote (“Super Genius”) be blown up or crushed by an anvil and still bounce back? But there’s really no reason for you to let this happen. You can get the idea of what any series is like by watching two or three episodes. You can prescreen videos—and you can even prescreen TV shows by taping them and reviewing them before letting your child watch them. But you can’t properly monitor children’s TV programs unless you at least occasionally watch the same TV shows or videos that your toddler watches.
