21.   A lot of parents no longer let children watch the nightly news because of the barrage of war scenes and nonstop murder stories.

22.   A world where parents raise children to adulthood, watch them strike out on their own, build careers, fall in love, get married.

23.   About two million children watch Nickelodeon during that half-hour each night.

24.   According to new statistics from Children Now, the California child advocacy group that sponsored the Stanford conference, children watch at least four hours of television every day.

25.   Burdette said it was also unclear whether the children were watching television on their own or simply seeing what their mothers were watching.

26.   But Americans are in a state of suspended animation, and their children are watching too much animation.

27.   But progress is progress, and they now have more information to help decide what is appropriate for their children to watch.

28.   But there were barbershops where the men played dominoes and there was a picture show where their children watched movies.

29.   By a large margin, they favor measures like ratings that would give parents more information about what their children are watching and listening to.

30.   But what will you listen to while the children are watching videos?