Even before Kids Under Fire was printed, Jean spoke to the Rotary Club of Peterborough, NH, where an audience of 30 cheered what it heard.
She took attendees for a stroll down memory lane, comparing the mild content of TV shows when they were growing up with the blood, guts and gore seen in today’s television fare.

“You’re right,” said one attendee who stayed afterwards to chat. “Because we’re saturated in it today, we can’t see how it has changed. We’ve come to expect loud, rude and stupid.”

Jean also drilled home the good aspects of TV and video games where the content is appropriate and balanced with activities that don’t involve a screen.

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