It's a cry that can often be heard in our house, usually from the children. Some explanation is required. Parents generally agree that the single most important difference in child-rearing past and present is the television .
Italian children go to school six days a week, starting at eight sharp.
In recompense they come home at one. It isn't always possible to be around to greet them. My wife returns in the afternoon and hears, as she turns the key, the familiar scuffle to get away from the viewing position on the sofa. It's not so much the content that bothers you. No, it's the seductiveness of the moving image itself that is so disturbing.