Less Aggressive Media Results in Less Aggressive Kids

I read a couple responses on here and began to think, i agree that much of the tests are still up in the air on results but we do know a lot about children and how they learn. Environment has an enormous impact on children and people in general.Too little exposure can have drastic consequences as well as too much. Parenting is of course one of the number one ways of teaching and ending up with results within children whether bad or good. One of the facts that have resulted out of studying children as well as their exposure to violence is that children are affected but to what degree we are unsure. Partially because watching or playing violence is not the only cause but it plays a huge part in the end result.We know children learn good and bad through interacting with there environment. Play being the number one way because they are not only hearing but interacting (physically) with their environment. When kids go from not only watching a violent show but then begin to interact with it (act it out) such as with video games, it heightens the learning that occurs, good or bad. I think it becomes an enormous balancing act. I feel strongly that we need to know about the game, if it involves things such as stealing cars, gory violence, murder, profanity than it is not something I want my child learning or playing. It does have an affect and impact and much of those attributes are not good no matter how little they are allowed to play. When it involves violence with a plot line with good versus bad such as those within Harry Potter, mythical games, etc. that is different. Children can understand the difference just as we can. but we have to look at the plot lines, the games, the amount of each within. Everything has an impact but how much depends on us and how involved we are with them and the play they choose.It is complicated but there are a lot of things we do know about children and learning which always has a result whether good or bad.