Too many people these days are busy sacrificing their children's attention to the idol which is the glass teat. Maybe they should factor TV into the equation and see if its religion in general or religion plus tv. Or books. Or whatever the source of the fiction they're testing is. Will a non-religious kid who reads comics know the difference better than a religious one who is not allowed to read comics (or fiction in general)? Using 'raised with religion' as the criteria without any other analysis or control is asking for a study to be thrown out. Personally, I'm very restrictive in how much I let my kids watch and that's only because we're at my mother-in-laws. Otherwise they don't watch at all. They see scooby doo more often in a book or comic than on tv. And as a parent, I think comics are fantastic for kids. It gets them interested in reading, art, storytelling, and more. Before my youngest could read he would look at the whole comic and then tell us a full story of whats happening. Storytelling is a fantastic social skill to have.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:23 PM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, well, you're teaching them the one TRUE faith, so that's not really a > good comparison.... > > :) > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Michael Dinowitz < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > My 5 year old knows scooby doo is not real. He's told me as much. Neither > > he nor his 7 year old sister have any problem distinguishing fantasy from > > reality, fiction from fact. > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > It is only looking at young children, not adults who grew up in those > > > situations. Very different populations, to be sure. > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I'd have to question this one. I was raised in an extreme religious > > > > environment, and have studied theology for years. I have absolutely > > > > no problem determining reality from fiction. Although I kinda like > > > > Robert Anton Wilson's definition of Reality as being what you can get > > > > away with. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Cameron Childress < > [email protected] > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/oszyw9q > > > > > > > > > > "The results suggest that exposure to religious ideas has a > powerful > > > > > impact on children's differentiation between reality and fiction, > not > > > > > just for religious stories but also for fantastical stories." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371806 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
