Any father extrapolating back to his own childhood and assuming a general, relative increase in availability over time, should have assumed that blocking, restricting, and demonizing said material was a futile pursuit. What I can only presume then is that there was a meaning in the message that only years later — as a parent myself — begins to make sense. But how does one then rationally — skeptically and logically — apply a filter to the media (and by this I mean television, movies, radio, books, and web content) pouring in ever increasing volumes across the gaze of our kids? And should we? I suppose the first question that must be explored is why might we need to filter?

The hidden agenda of Thomas the Tank? It’s almost as if his thinking was on a one way track to… oh.
- Thanks to Mike.

…because bad parents feed their kids regular food. Or something like that.

Testosterone. No longer just for professional athletes.

The executive wants your kid to watch. You, as the parent, want to promote a balance of practical and fun for your kids.

If one ever needs a reminder of the sad state of medical and science reporting in the modern media, one can often just turn on the television and witness a lemming-like approach to sensational news stories. This morning, for example, after the wife and I watched last night’s The National (CBC) report on a new report on childhood obesity from the American Academy of Pediatrics I Google’d a total of six-hundred and ninety-five redundant articles on that same subject proclaiming the same exaggerated and out-of-context headlines: “Cholesterol drugs urged …

Excepting in rare cases of innovative and well-written stories, even main characters are extracted from the cultural psyche an built around a stereotyped framework that can be understood with little explanation.

Perhaps I could prepare her for a world of scientific inquiry and supplement her with a vocabulary of Latin…

“Grave?” Uh… “Pathetic?” Mmm… “Disservice?” Hmmm…