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Campbell contended that even dramatized documentaries such as CHILD'S WORLD "The child's world is not some- body elses' idea of the world," she said. "The child's world consists of his or her home, parents, siblings, street and school. That's where they have the power to make a difference in their quality of life by their own behavior." a book in which critical thought makes its own images. The televi- sion image fully impacts on the child and can remain there for life." Every day, she said, children are slurping up these images when they watch such "restricted" home videos as Terminator 2 or Total Recall or even when they watch the behavior of Barb Simpson on the popular television cartoon series. And, because children learn through imitation, they are inadvertently learning anti-social behavior in a televised world far removed from their own. access to. It is the content of American channels that worried her most for it has ominous effects on the minds of children. tor." she said. "Inc-y are a remote problem." While she lauded recent Canadian Radio-Television and Television Commission (CRTC) anti-violence regulations that, among others, keeps violent pro- gramming off the screens until 9 p.m.. Campbell said this only applies to channels under CRTC jurisdiction. not to the numerous American channels children have "Television images are imprinted below the level of critical thought." she explained. "It's not like reading (Continued from pus 13) i "These toys and video games “wally reward aggressive behav- ior." she said. "They are a terrible (Continued from page 13) children have seen 400,000 sex acts on television before they are 17 and 200,000 acts of violence." He said mothers should start being mothers - not allowing tele- vision to babysit their children - as well as fathers to start being good fathers and not persuading their sons that going to violent movies will make them "real men." He said many fathers believe taking their sons to violent movies is harmless or will make them into real mean and then these same fathers watch the “slasher/gasher" movies late at night. "And what do these boys think? That when you get older, you get to watch these movies," he said. Violent movies harmful to boys He said he recalls a friend of his son's telling him about the movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Total Recall. when he holds a gun to the head of a woman and says "consider this a divorce" and shoots her. Television images afect ehildrenfor life Baehr said most adults dismiss this as nonsense and absurd. "But what is this nine-year-old boy going to think about it? He will think that divorce is something cruel and evil and means the destruction of the mother figure," claimed Baehr. RECENT INCIDENTS He mentioned the recent inci- dent of the boys laying down on the centre of the road from a movie as proof of the influence movies have over young people, particu- larly teenagers who Baehr says watch an estimate of 50 movies a And although he quoted American statistics, Baehr said an incident in which a man in Vancouver tried to duplicate a vio- lent scene in Silence of the lambs was proof of the influence of movies in both Canada and the States. His group has constantly lob- bied the Hollywood film industry and continues to try to persuade film companies against excessive violent and pornographic films. He said the recent addition of the fam- ily film divisions at both Warner Brother's and Universal Studios point to the influence of his group. "People are being destroyed by what they are seeing," he said. He said the move away from the Hollywood film industry in the mid-1960s by the church signalled the end to family movies and called for a renewal offamily movies devoid of excessive vio- lence and sex. Baehr concluded the reason spe- cial interest groups like the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation have gotten into Hollywood is directly due to the withdrawal of the Protestant Film Office and the Roman Catholic League of Decency which acted as a watchdog to the Motion Picture Code from 1933 to 1966. 0 00 Rather than expanding young children's awareness of a world full of violence, it is the role of educa- tors and parents to help them feel safe in their smaller world. In her travels, Campbell said she has often heard children in the audience, when they talk about being bullied and harassed, saying that they need to have their parents listen to them when they are frightened. RESPECT FOR PARENTS "lt takes courage to say that because children have a great respect for their elders," she said. "Until they are 12 and puberty sets in, children beleive their parents are perfect and teachers know every- thing." She said research proves chil- dren "will do everything to protect their parents," even taking the blame for violence done against them. They are often very much aware of the times their tired moth- ers make them a favorite dish or their fathers play checkers with them, she said. That is why it is so important for parents to speak to their children in nurturing tones, out of a feeling of Rescue 911 and Missing Tn should not be watched by cl under the ages of eight 0 because children of that age be learning skills that help deal with their own world. "America's Most Wanted, story about a psychopathic won't help them deal with the world." she said. , , HARROP RESTAURANT _ 's. 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First, parents can turn off the vio- lent programs their children are watching and substitute healthier alternatives such as card games or woodworking. They can also join one of many anti-violence groups already estab- lished throughout the country, groups that monitor and protest media violence. she said. VIEWING GUIDELINES More than that, Campbell sug- gested a revision of guidelines for children's viewing since those established by the Ontario Film Review Board are "questionable." A more subtle long-term approach to ending media violence is entrenched in changing attitudes toward it. This, said Campbell, can be done in the same way that the public image of smoking and waste disposal has changed over the years. COUCE it essential to give them rules tc live by, to teach them the language skills and resources that will enable them to solve conflicts withoul resort: ns m for them. And that's why it ;ential to give them rules to tr )lve conflicts without , the violence portrayed on screens as the only FHE OAKVILLE BEAVER port pro social programming an people want to buy things that at Dart of the solution." she observed. With 80% of homes now con- taining television and VCR sets and with numerous channels to choose from, Campbell noted the danger to children is very high. However, she said her experiences in the past year have made her "very hopeful. "There is now a high level of awareness about violence out there," she said. "Many people I've talked to understand that violence has its roots in social problems such as poverty, sexism and racism. They understand that its victims need a lot of support to heal their wounds. But they didn't get this understand- ing from a media that is usually one-dimensional." 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