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.

And she probably learned it all from me, too…

It’s baby-making time. And tonight we dine in HELL!

From a parenting standpoint, my curiosity is at the edge of its seat waiting for that moment when the light in her little head flicks on to realizing that there is actually content on the television, and its not just a big funny toy in the living room.

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

I’m too cheap, but I hear they have television on cell phones now.

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