Heed These Words: Do Parents' Dire Warnings to Kids Have Any Basis in Reality?
The Columbian › February 03, 2004
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Vancouver's Jim DeFord grew up when television screens were small and children's delight in the new technology was large.
"As a kid, you were so absorbed by (television), you would sit as close as you could, to feel like more of a part of what was going on," said 50-year-old DeFord, a project manager for a property management company in Portland.See the full content of this document
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Heed These Words: Do Parents' Dire Warnings to Kids Have Any Basis in Reality?
It was a little too close for adult comfort.
DeFord said it was "pretty much common knowledge" what happened to children who sat with faces inches from TV sets. His parents took up the rallying cry: "You'll go blind!"DeFord paid not the least attention."Good grief, no," he said. "Kids have no fear, no worries about that reality stuff."But should they?Nearly everyone who has survived childhood can recite at least a few dire warnings -- the kind issued from parents fixated on worst- case scenar...See the full content of this document
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