Certainly, the circumstances are every parent's nightmare. My thoughts and prayers are with the family of Kayla and with the young shooter. That pretty much sums up what we are trying to do. Additionally, we're active in our church and hope to pass on our faith and moral values to our sons. Unfortunately, much of American pop culture would subvert our effort, if we allowed it into our family.
Many frustrated parents feel the same way.
In addition to these measures, other parents make appeals to network TV execs, movie producers, studio honchos and advertisers to refrain from spewing forth garbage across the airwaves, on the big screen or through lyrical content. Well, we do turn it off. We don't write letters about the trash because we don't watch it, or allow it to be watched. Yet, we have no control over what the neighborhood kids watch. If the six year old neighbor boy sees or hears violent or sexually explicit garbage, he may act out those violent images on the playground, perhaps against one of my sons.