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Every child needs its parent's love and undivided attention throughout their childhood and adolescent phase. Kids need to be able to trust their parents, along with being taught the difference between right and wrong. Without proper parental supervision, a child can suffer severe emotional and psychological distress. Discipline should be a philosophy that parents must use in their day-to-day life. Hitting a child is unacceptable in that it teaches the child that it is o.k. to hit other in order to solve problems. A more acceptable punishment should be timeouts, groundings, and taking away toys and privileges. Parents should try to keep their children away from watching violence on television and video games, along with teaching your children to stay away from violent situations and environments. Children who watch a lot of TV are less aroused by violent scenes than are those who only watch a little; in other words, they're less bothered by violence in general, and less likely to see anything wrong with it. With proper parenting techniques, children can learn to live non-violent lifestyle, and hopefully teach their children the same techniques.

When I was growing up, my parents tried to monitor what types of shows we watched on television. I can remember that MTV, WWF wrestling, and rated R movies were outlawed in our home. I remember that professional wrestling was outlawed due to my brother and I trying to mimic what the wrestlers did during the show. I am not sure if violence on TV. creates a violent child. Violence is everywhere in the world, including our government going to war, which teaches kids that it's o.k. to destroy someone's home and kill people in order for us to get what we want. The news channels seem to focus most of their reports on violent situations including murders, deaths, and acts of crime. I think that it is inevitable to prevent a child from seeing violence on t.v. but if a parent can limit the

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