Implementing changes to the MPAA, Motion Picture Association of America, rating system eliminates foul behavior, protects children’s environments, and models appropriate language expected from them. The current rating system hurts places such as school, streets, and the home environment. For example, if a teenager watches a NC-17 movie he will act older. Since the content is restricted from the teenager, it will instigate the teen to act more mature and want to act as the actors (Gustafson 1). He is now mimicking older citizens as if he was a young toddler learning how to speak.an easy fix to this is more security and cameras for the movie theater.
Motion Picture Association of America reshapes behavior in children dramatically. The MPAA has guided children the wrong direction. Allowing young adolescences to sneak into a movie theater and affect their brains maturity will hurt the children in the end. However, there is more than one person to blame then just the theater staff we can also blame the parents. Some parents today think their parenting is over after they walk and talk. They seem to think if they keep their child busy, the parents are done. Marjorie J. Hogan, a pediatric clinic found that: In 1999, 41% of families were on-line, and 48% of children boasted a television set in their bedroom. Children 2 through 17 years of age spend an average of 4.35 hours per day in front of a screen (TV, videotape, computer, or video game). Whereas children and adolescents spend an average of 2.46 hours watching television every day, they spend an average of only 1.14 hours doing homework and 0.77 hours reading books. (Hogan 1) Rating systems have a big impact on the content our children see. It is horrible how nothing is sacred on television now. For example, there are now Viagra and Tampax commercials in the middle of the day so everyone can watch. Nowadays if citizens do not know something, they turn to technology. The children will just google what Viagra is for, to find out that Viagra can treat erectile dysfunction, and it can treat high blood pressure in the lungs. Parenting has digressed dramatically over the last decade, which does not help the children at all. Marjorie J. Hogan also found out that: Parents can incorporate the lessons from their own experience, values, cultural traditions, and spiritual beliefs into a unique parenting style, providing balance from the barrage of media messages encountered by children. In our diverse American society, families from vastly different cultures, countries, and circumstances struggle to make sense of our shared media as they influence their lives and their children. (Hogan 1) Half of the parents nowadays buy their child a phone or tablet, act as a chauffeur for them, and let them live as adults at the age of 12, even though the child has ten to fifteen years of mature yet. …show more content…
“After all the anguished conversation about media violence in the last three weeks—the Congressional hearings, the entertainment ‘summit conferences,’ the probing TV specials, and the solemn pronouncements of politicians—will we once again shrug our shoulders, change the subject, and do nothing? Americans of every political persuasion have reached an overwhelming consensus that brutality in the popular culture exerts a destructive influence on the attitudes and behavior of our kids” (Medved, 1).
As you see here, people do not care about what has happened in the past. Or what happens in the future. Congress needs to change this they have matured kids just by wasting time with watching TV and movies. Unfortunately, it’s not just congress’s fault it is also the parents as well for not entertaining their children like playing board games, playing outside, and teaching your child how to clean or help with daily chores around the house. Parents do not value the time they have with their child until it is gone. The Motion Picture Association of America also regulates games such as GTA V, Call of Duty, and many other first person video games. This type of game play gets kids to think that violence is okay, because America markets this type of behavior. Jeff McIntyre has found out that: At the heart of
Motion Picture Association of America reshapes behavior in children dramatically. The MPAA has guided children the wrong direction. Allowing young adolescences to sneak into a movie theater and affect their brains maturity will hurt the children in the end. However, there is more than one person to blame then just the theater staff we can also blame the parents. Some parents today think their parenting is over after they walk and talk. They seem to think if they keep their child busy, the parents are done. Marjorie J. Hogan, a pediatric clinic found that: In 1999, 41% of families were on-line, and 48% of children boasted a television set in their bedroom. Children 2 through 17 years of age spend an average of 4.35 hours per day in front of a screen (TV, videotape, computer, or video game). Whereas children and adolescents spend an average of 2.46 hours watching television every day, they spend an average of only 1.14 hours doing homework and 0.77 hours reading books. (Hogan 1) Rating systems have a big impact on the content our children see. It is horrible how nothing is sacred on television now. For example, there are now Viagra and Tampax commercials in the middle of the day so everyone can watch. Nowadays if citizens do not know something, they turn to technology. The children will just google what Viagra is for, to find out that Viagra can treat erectile dysfunction, and it can treat high blood pressure in the lungs. Parenting has digressed dramatically over the last decade, which does not help the children at all. Marjorie J. Hogan also found out that: Parents can incorporate the lessons from their own experience, values, cultural traditions, and spiritual beliefs into a unique parenting style, providing balance from the barrage of media messages encountered by children. In our diverse American society, families from vastly different cultures, countries, and circumstances struggle to make sense of our shared media as they influence their lives and their children. (Hogan 1) Half of the parents nowadays buy their child a phone or tablet, act as a chauffeur for them, and let them live as adults at the age of 12, even though the child has ten to fifteen years of mature yet. …show more content…
“After all the anguished conversation about media violence in the last three weeks—the Congressional hearings, the entertainment ‘summit conferences,’ the probing TV specials, and the solemn pronouncements of politicians—will we once again shrug our shoulders, change the subject, and do nothing? Americans of every political persuasion have reached an overwhelming consensus that brutality in the popular culture exerts a destructive influence on the attitudes and behavior of our kids” (Medved, 1).
As you see here, people do not care about what has happened in the past. Or what happens in the future. Congress needs to change this they have matured kids just by wasting time with watching TV and movies. Unfortunately, it’s not just congress’s fault it is also the parents as well for not entertaining their children like playing board games, playing outside, and teaching your child how to clean or help with daily chores around the house. Parents do not value the time they have with their child until it is gone. The Motion Picture Association of America also regulates games such as GTA V, Call of Duty, and many other first person video games. This type of game play gets kids to think that violence is okay, because America markets this type of behavior. Jeff McIntyre has found out that: At the heart of