Avoiding junk food; gulping junk media

Given that children now spend more than seven hours a day with their TV's, computers, cellphones, and other electronic media more time than they spend in school and more than many of them sleep parents have got to get smart about our children's media use and how it affects their physical and mental health, and we need to develop a family strategy for managing media. Good luck figuring that out from the research, which is confusing and incomplete. For instance, the health effects of cellphones have been barely studied, despite the fact that most teens seem to text more than they breathe. But there's some help in a new article in Pediatrics, which evaluates the state of the science and lays out the good and bad.

Most parents are clueless,They have no idea about media effects. They probably have no idea what their children are watching. Parents need to understand that media can have an impact on everything they're concerned about with their children's health and development: school performance, learning disabilities, sex, drugs, aggressive behavior.

Parents work hard to protect our children from harm, but they do not often think of taking low grade school kids to an R-rated movie or letting middle school kids play violent video games like Halo for hours on end. We are trying to cut the junk food out of their diets while letting them gorge on junk media.

At the end i would like to share an anecdote which left several questions in my " I saw a six year kid jumping on the car's bonnet wearing big combat boots , six pocket trousers and a tee tucked in his trousers , then upon the call from his friends he jumped over the car and ran like an officer chasing robbers and during all this he was yelling at his pitch "dekho ray aa gya body guard , sab ki shaan; bhai jaan" you can very well imagine how Bollywood it is affecting the thinking horizon of our innocent kids it made me think several questions i would really like to share.

Wondering where to start in getting control of your children's media diet?
Have we failed to develop national heroes? children follows Bollywood stars?
Is electronic media becoming so powerful controlling our youth ?
why our playgrounds are barren and sheesha bars are becoming more popular day by day ?