Parenting Quote by Penn Brooks

“Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Television is all right, I've nothing against it, but I don't like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and…

— Stephen King

“Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.”

— Jean Thompson

“TV. It’s like if you’re not on it, you don’t exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.”

— John Sandford

“TV was like a third parent- a source of ideas and information and impressions. and not such a bad parent- always with time to…

— Bill McKibben

“So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's…

— Jim Trelease

“My parents think so. And my parents have a very annoying habit of being right,”

— Ally Carter

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their…

— Trey Parker

“TV demands so little of us. It anesthetizes our worried minds and breeds mental laziness.”

— Steve Whigham

“We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television”

— Neil Postman

“i hated how my parents would talk about me like i wasnt watching.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“The fact is television doesn't simply reflect society's values. In important ways, it also legitimizes them. And more and more in recent decades it…

— Bernard Goldberg