Too much? No, I apparently got lucky and assumed the exactly right amount.
Many generations of fine people have been raised without TVs. What I am saying is that even a responsible parent who is soloing at home during the day—the dad-working-mom-at-home, nuclear family recalled so lovingly by some people these days—will find a show that hypnotizes the kiddies, like TT does, invaluable if only so she can go to the bathroom in something approaching peace. Television, even that of the highest quality, should not be used as a daycare service, but prudent use can be good.
I think you missed the point, Mr. dropzone. It was that you shouldn’t have assumed anything at all. But there’s really no point in arguing it further.
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Maybe so, but my conviction is that ultimately television does more harm than good, by stunting a child’s development in any number of ways. Sitting and absorbing television does not require thought, or analysis, or skills. Nor does it develop physical or mental skills of any kind. Much children’s TV is cunningly (and some would say cynically) intended and designed to manipulate children in some way, usually to get them to buy or pressure their parents to buy some product. (And I’m well aware that I am now hijacking my own thread, but oh well) I think this manipulation is just plain wrong, even if it is legal or “the American Way.” I for one find the thought of a machine “hypnotizing” any kids of mine-especially a machine whose output I have no control over short of turning it off-very disturbing.
Okay, I hate to hijack, but I just have to ask a question about this. If what you stated above is true, then why is your brother having another kid? I’ve always wondered why some parents decide to have kids at times when they know they can’t afford it or have time for it.
Yeah. The one on the way was an accident. Don’t know how she got preggers 'cause they took precautions. Ya know, those pills are only 99.98% effective, or something like that. Also, I never said that I agreed with his decisions, only that I am supportive of him.
I don’t know. I’ve been channel surfing, run across the little fellas (or whatever they are) and found myself unable to click the up arrow again. I’ve seen them a couple of times and they allways seem to keep me watching…for a while anyway. I’m rediculously inexperienced with illegal drugs but I have a feeling that the world they live in isn’t that much different from that of a mind clouded by narchotics.
Tellytubbies has some strange drug coincedences, magic dust, a laughing baby in the sun, and a speaker system to tell them when they have to go to bed.
Its really a conditioning tool, so in 20 years when a load of speakers pop up out of the ground in the midle of Times Square, urging people to kill the unbelievers, the training that teletubbies has been imprinting into the youth of today will take over.
yes, I’m scared too.
