Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and eventual disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.

Television has thrown in the towel. It rarely even pays lip service to its once brave mission to educate and illuminate. Instead it gives us what we want, in m…

My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every week, but as far as I was concerned he wasn't famous enough…

We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home.