One, Two, Tie my shoes. Three, four, shut the door. Five, six blame the parents?

Sorry for the wait people, I have been so busy with trying to prepare myself for my upcoming sophomore year at Furman University. Last night, my girlfriend and I were sitting down watching an episode of Family Guy(I am not so much a fan of that show) and it happens to be the one where Peter decides to start his own television network in spite of the Federal Communications Commission's over-reaction of some trouser malfunction that caused David Hyde Pierce's testicles to be revealed to the live at home audience at the Emmy Awards. This sparked a nice debate over whether or not the FCC should be doing what they are doing and censorship over video games. My girlfriend believes in what most people believe in is that the FCC has to right to censor just about anything they want, or things in which they deem "immoral" for the viewing public because they are protecting the children of today(since they are very impressionable.) Also as for video games, they have the right to censor and making special rules for games that will help prevent young children for getting their hands on them and making them go out and kill other children and people(in example the great debate over Grand Theft Auto video games.) I somewhat believe in what she believes in. I do believe the FCC should be around, because I really do not want to see human penises and vaginas constantly showed on television without some point(whether sexual intention to state a point or for educational purposes.) However, I do believe that part of the blame in what goes on the television show and what kids should watch falls on the shoulders of the parents. If parents A and B allow their child C to watch(either on purpose or unintentionally) porn, people being maimed and murder for no apparent reason, watching shows in which people commit crimes then C goes out into the real world and commits this crimes. You cannot say that it was what was on television's vault(despite people use this as an argue as to why they do things like this.) The parent's should step up and say that they were bad parents, they did not set rules and boundaries as to what C watched as a child nor did the give C any reprimand that what these people are doing are bad and you can get into trouble for doing this. As for the big video game debate in which Senators like Hilary Clinton fought to bring more laws to restrict what video games goes on the shelves. Listen, video games need to have set guidelines such as Adult Only(AO), Everyone (E), or Mature(M) to prevent parents from "accidentally" buying games for the wrong age of children. It would not be very smart for Parent D to buy games rated M for his child E whose hobbies include playing the sandbox at the local elementary school and watching Sesame Street. So I do encourage these rules to prevent these "accidents" from happening. Some people out there my have noticed that the word accident is in quotation marks, this is because people buying games for children who are far below the age of seventeen is about as much of an accident as someone over twenty-one buying alcohol for someone who is far under the legal drinking age limit. Overseas, their television show programming is a lot more loose then the United States limits on things are. Why? For the sheer reason is that parents are taking responsible in educating their children in what is right and wrong in American society. So before today's blog becomes any longer, I would like all of the parents who read this to understand take the time out of your busy day(or un-busy day) to watch what your children are watching and playing while you are around(or not around.) What you may see might surprise you, regardless help your children understand what exactly is going on while they are watching programming that is deemed out of their viewing age.