I am trying to figure out how to shape my enthymeme for the next paper on media. The premise of my argument is that parents who completely eliminate media venues from their homes also remove some potentially positive effects of media. Like chemotherapy, this approach eliminates the bad with the good. At least in the case of the media, there are more effective ways to reduce the negative effects of media while at the same time allowing media to be a benefit to the home. Any enthymeme suggestions?

Enthymeme 1: Completely eliminating television and internet from the home will not be strong enough to protect children from parentally-deemed bad material because completely eliminating television and internet from the home only controls the children’s immediate environment not providing for situations beyond the walls of the home.

Enythymeme 2: Parents that completely eliminate media from their home because they want to protect their children from harmful influences are actually injuring their children's ability to protect themselves from harmful influences because parents that completely eliminate media from their home because they want to protect their children from harmful influences do not allow for their children to learn how to make informed media-related decisions on their own.

Implicit assumption: Anything that does not allow for children to learn how to make informed media-related decisions on their own also injures the children's ability to protect themselves from harmful influences.

Enthymeme: Cutting television out of the home to eliminate the negative effects television has on us and our children while not considering other alternatives of controlling television consumption in the home harms us and our children more than it helps because cutting television out of the home to eliminate the negative effects television has on us and our children while not considering other alternatives of controlling television consumption in the home also limits opportunities for political involvement, cultural awareness, educational refinement, and parental mentoring on appropriate use of the media.