Child soldier and Teaching kids to kill

Connection:

The text Teaching to kill reminds me of a show I used watch called 24. This is because in one of the episodes a boy learns to shoot at the age of 15 by playing video games. Then later on finds him self dealing with bad people and doing bad stuff for them, for example killing innocent people to rob a bank. This relates to this text because the things kids watch and play can physically and mentally manipulate them. Then later on those violent movies or games they had played can be a sense of reality to them. There is a similarity between the text and the show because it all relates back to media and what type of message they are putting out there and which is violence is okay and there is nothing bad about it.

Challenges:

Is the impact of violence on kids only should be blamed on the video games and the media out there? or should the parents of the kids be aware of the things there kids are doing?

Concepts:

I think the key concepts that should be held from the text is that the parents have a say in what their kids do and what types of games and movies they watch and play. So the negative impact of violence on kids shouldn't all go to the media, it should also go to the parents because they c=have they power to stop their kids in doing these bad things.

Changes:

The key changes that are being portrayed in the text is that we shouldn't all blame the media (violent movies and or games) because those things could be the cause of the violence the kids do and it may not. So we just have to keep and open mind and send positive messages to kids and limit the amount of violence they watch and or play.