There have been many attempts to shield children from entertainment that might be “dangerous” to them. “Stickers, chips and the alphabet soup of ratings represent just a few ways that freaked-out parents — or, more accurately, politicians pandering to freaked-out parents — have tried to control what their kids encounter in the media. And that desire for control is precisely where parents go wrong, says an emerging group of cultural observers and media and parenting experts. The key, they say, is to parent within the new technological realities, not in spite of them.”