Who Has Your Child's Attention?

Children absorb information and influences from their environments. In this electronic, information-rich age, we should, more than ever before, be discriminating about what our children learn and where they learn it.
As a parent, it is up to you. You must decide, as far as it is in your power, what you want your children to hear, see and experience.
Watch what your children view on television. Many "children's" programs today feature ghosts, sorcery, witchcraft, violence or obscenity in some form or another. Yet for some children, the television has become a babysitter!
We can teach our children all we want when we are there with them, but if we put the television in front of them to make things easier for us, then we will undo all the good we have done. Professional communicators in the electronic media gear their programming to capture and hold our attention.
Satan skillfully uses the secular media in his diabolical plan to catch our children and involve them in things outside God's kingdom. He uses the mesmerizing power of television and other media to teach them a perspective and attitude about life that is different from the pure perspective of the Word.
When children watch gory, horrific scenes on television (or on other visual media), they lose their inner knowledge that the weird, the monstrous and the evil are inherently wrong. When we let our children feast on godless TV and video offerings, they will develop a taste for this new "food." They will lose the ability to discern the distasteful, the ugly, the disharmonious and the obscene, and they will lose the desire to avoid these things.
An early result of this ungodly diet of entertainment is that our children want to experience everything in a heightened sort of way. The music must be loud, the colors must be bright, and the action must move quickly. Everything must be experienced in an extreme way because this is what the media has fed into their lives.
Today we are reaping in our nations what we have sown in the past--violence, lewdness, drug abuse, pornography, profanity and vulgarity. Jeremiah 10:2 warns us, "Thus saith the Lord, 'Learn not the way of the heathen'" (KJV)

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