That's what you're teaching kids in a learning environment. The movies are a recreation. It's like playtime...something fun to go out and do. When kids play games, be it cops and robbers or what have you, they themselves emulate violence and dangerous or precarious situations. Because that's exciting, and that's what playing or "adventure" is all about.
My point, though, was that since kids don't actually drive cars, there really shouldn't be too much of a worry of them trying to do what the cars do in the movie.
This puzzles me. Where does this connect to the article?
The fear seems to be that children are going to mimic what they see in the movie by actually trying to beat trains in races on railroad tracks. I'm wondering what the children are doing at railroad tracks unattended in the first place.
No. For him it was warning bells. And ironic ones at that.
To me it seemed like a "double-issue"...meaning that he was concerned about two things at once: the safety of others, and his own personal grief. Here's his quote from the article: "As I'm sitting there, I couldn't believe it because this is a red car. My daughter was killed in a red car,"...what does it being a RED car have to do with anything?
You just said that "they themselves emulate violence and dangerous or precarious situations." which is the whole point.
My point, though, was that since kids don't actually drive cars, there really shouldn't be too much of a worry of them trying to do what the cars do in the movie.
And nothing they see and hear now will affect them later?
The fear seems to be that children are going to mimic what they see in the movie by actually trying to beat trains in races on railroad tracks. I'm wondering what the children are doing at railroad tracks unattended in the first place.
That was never a point in the article.
To me it seemed like a "double-issue"...meaning that he was concerned about two things at once: the safety of others, and his own personal grief. Here's his quote from the article: "As I'm sitting there, I couldn't believe it because this is a red car. My daughter was killed in a red car,"...what does it being a RED car have to do with anything?
It was a great irony for him. Btw, we have a chief of police in the extended family. Guess what color of car is considered the most dangerous by PDs? And he says that statistics bear that out.