"OK, here goes. Kids should be able to listen to any music they want within reason. The stuff with extreme lyrics and harsh messages should be controlled or limited until they are teens, but by then in today's society there is little point in trying to shield them any further.
I think the real danger of some media messages is that kids and teens develop the idea that they understand things they cannot understand, things most adults do not truly understand. The result of things like this become evident when certain things happen. For example, On 9/11 One of my friends was in high school, and they started watching the news in class. When the second tower was hit, one of the kids said "cool". To this person it was a special effect. This person's parents may very well have tried to limit his exposure, but it did not help.
Instead of preventing exposure to these things, parents should expose themselves to it, and discuss them with their kids.
And yes, I do have a kid, and yes I do practice what I preach"
- BaitingMaster
I remember I was on school camp on 9/11 and we were just channel surfing through the news stations to watch the planes crashing into the towers and the towers falling down.
