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coffeebabe
Farmgirl at Heart
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Helen
South Yarmouth
MA
USA
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 Posted - Oct 04 2004 : 06:33:04 AM
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I haven't had TV for years now. I have a 12 yr old daughter, and frankly, we don't miss it. We really don't have time to watch anyway, what with her homework schedule and my work schedule. When I go somewhere where they do have on and it's on I am appalled by all the violence that is on. I remember when I was 11, and Bobby Kennedy was shot - they showed it on TV, and I remember really feeling shocked, as if I had been there - that's how powerful it felt.
Now that kind of displayed violence is commonplace and people are numb to it. (What is wrong with THAT picture!?)
Occasionally I miss the home & garden shows, or Discovery, but I can usually get videos at the (free) library and watch those.
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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Posted - Oct 04 2004 : 08:06:14 AM
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Morning eveybody! Gorgeous and nippy here with threats of the temp dipping into the 40's tonight! Cant't get husband to but we have limits for our son;no more than 2 hours for tv, video games or computer (unless school related). Sounds like alot ? In actuality with all his activities and friends he has a hard time getting 45 minutes in! He started middle school and the activities are endless! It was inconceivable to me that ALL the children he went to elementary school with had TV/VCR/DVDs in their rooms as well as computers! I've heard it explained that atleast the kids don't fight about what they watch anymore! What about family time, cooperation, learning compromise and tolerance? We had one tv growing up and what was watched was determined by your turn or favorite night! I can remember special permission on Thursday nights to "stay up" past 8:00 to watch That Girl and that was a huge deal to me! There are few things on that elicit that sort of anticipation. I still like PBS and Masterpiece Theatre (usually...) I just read Barbara Kingsolver's
Small Wonders and she has two essays about tv . One she refers to it as the one eyed monster and explains why her children still do not have a tv in their home. The other she explains that due to the lack of televised media horrors and network programming there are no murders in her home! These both really hit home for me because I have been very cautious in what my son was allowed to watch or see at the movies and we never had nightmares/ terrors and he slept a peaceful blissful sleep that children ought to! It's a little harder these days but I am still watchful and if something is questionable I will watch with him and determine appropriateness myself! Well I guess you know know how I feel on this HotTopic! Going out in the sunshine now! Bramble |
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Tracy
Amherst
NH
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Posted - Oct 04 2004 : 6:25:19 PM
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Well ladies and gentlemen my daughter has just finished day eight with no t.v. and is doing fine. I think my hubby is more upset than she is. Although she doesn't quite understand what's going on and asks very mournfully, "Will I never get to watch ANYTHING EVER AGAIN?". Phew, it's hard to break habits.
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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Idahospud
True Blue Farmgirl
67 Posts
Nikki
Emmett
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Nov 17 2004 : 8:57:34 PM
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We haven't had TV reception of any kind for over 3 years now. It has been WONDERFUL! We do have a VCR and DVD player to watch the occasional movie, but it's not a big attraction around here. A few weeks ago, the batteries went dead in the remote, and no-one was bothered enough to replace them for over a week--they just found other stuff to do. I think that not having TV has made my kids more creative and more apt to play together; also, since we homeschool, I love not having the distraction. It does make us a little out of the loop when it comes to some of the pop culture stuff--I have never seen American Idol or Survivor, for example.
Sometimes I think back to when we have TV and I wonder how I got anything done! It is such a time waster. |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Nov 18 2004 : 05:19:43 AM
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I agree, TV is a time waster. And someday we will look back on our lives and wonder why we spent so much time just watching inane stuff. TV could be so wonderful if it was used to teach and inform, and thank goodness there are a few progrmas like that. I never turn on the TV during the day while I am at home. It goes on after dinner for an hour or two. Interesting that my daughter was never really addicted to the TV. Even as a child, she would turn it off after a program or two.
Thanks for the link to the article, Clare. You are so informed....how do you find all these interesting links?
jpbluesky
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