Book Quote by David B. Haight

When people first started buying TV sets, one of the big reasons was to provide entertainment. To make sure their offspring watch shows they…

— Soupy Sales

As a parent, you're struggling to find stuff that you think is suitable for the kids, but also stuff that you'd like to watch…

— David Hewlett

In its effect on family relationships, in its facilitation of parental withdrawal from an active role in the socialization of their children, and in…

— Marie Winn

Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a…

— Kenneth Keniston

They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in what to do first.…

— Dorothy H Cohen

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

— Matt Groening

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such…

— Robert Winston

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch,…

— Steve Burns

Entertainment seems to be the only arena where children who pursue the work of their parents, which is an inherently natural thing to do,…

— Dan Levy

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

— Bonnie Hammer

Our role as parents is to do all we can to create an atmosphere where our children can feel the influence of the Spirit…

— Cheryl A. Esplin