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By: dieKrahe.com » Video Morphine

dieKrahe.com » Video Morphine — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:57:16 +0000

[...] even see my cats staring at the glowing box every once in a while. Eric Meyers most recent blog entry jumps onto this topic, while talking about his daughters cranky mood [...]

By: Neurotypical

Neurotypical — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:30:30 +0000

Electron Opiate
In electron opiates we abandon
ourselves and others at random
comatose colours which oscillate
helping us to further procrastinate.

Moving us hastily, swish-swhash
through badly pasted mish-mash
while remaining still and seated
activity in our…

By: Will

Will — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:10:40 +0000

kill the TV is my motto. funny thing is, I work in TV but refuse to own one (dvds on the lappy). I dont have kids and I fear the day when I have to make that decision. After hours of screaming, how empty might my antiTV dogma seem…. good for you for posting it.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:01:46 +0000

I’d have to say television was extremely moderated growing up. Aside from perhaps The Muppet Show, Incredible Hulk, The Electric Company and of course Sesame Street, not a whole lot of time was spent in front of the box. More time was spent encouraging a love of reading, and an active imagination; and my brother and I turned out just fine. I suspect however that Ms. Carolyn will be a bit more proficient in CSS at 3 than any of the rest of us.

By: apartness

apartness — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:37:38 +0000

Eric, you continually blaze a trail that I hope in my humble and inept way to follow.

(Oh, and your CSS writing is also good.)

TV was my baby sitter, and look at me now.

By: David H

David H — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:43:03 +0000

yes … we have a 7 month old and we have next to no television on. The only times we cave (okay, ‘I’ cave) is when he’s just woken up at 4 am, and won’t go back to sleep, and I’m too zonked to talk ‘perky’ to him! So, in those cases, it’s amazing what will work … Baby Einstein, Open University, video taped Cricket highlights … it’s all been tried, and it all works.

By: Paul G

Paul G — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:55:31 +0000

Bah. I generally only watch TV or movies when I’m at someone else’s house. It’s not some snobbish thing I like to lord over others, I just have a tendency to think of all the productive things I could be doing as I reach for the power button. Even a half-hour seems to precious to me to be wasted, so I usually don’t even flip it on. I would make an exception for the Simpsons, but they come on while I’m out swimming my daily mile.

I guess as I get older (well, inasmuch as 24 is “older”), I have gained a greater appreciation for what little time we are allotted and would prefer to spend it being productive or spending time with friends, rather than watching an entertaining but ultimately useless house appliance.

By: William

William — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:07:17 +0000

I wish there were more parents who would follow the less TV. It seems
that some people use TV to baby sit; weather a single parent or both having
to work to make ends meet. Our country is so busy that being able to
enjoy sitting still for a spell is a thing of the past. It is amazing how
many people I see driving to work in longgg SUV’s smoking a cancer stick
talking on their cell phone and blowing the horn to go faster.
Wake Up America and smell the roses.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 18:43:52 +0000

ahhh, yes,the Baby Einsteins.. sometimes i wonder how anyone ever managed to calm a baby down in the dark ages before those vids were made.!

By: Laurens Holst

Laurens Holst — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:38:55 +0000

Bah, nothing wrong with television… Tho’ moderation is the keyword. If your kid sits behind the television for hours each day, then it’s not good, but I seriously doubt an hour or two hours a day (with some relaxation in case there is something special on) does much harm. If anything, it will be educational. Will make children more ‘worldly-wise’. And er, comment no. 2, I doubt there’s much of a connection between television and reading. One does not exclude the other, or at least I do not see why it should. I read a lot, still do btw (tho’ less than I used to because I have more other things which take up my time nowadays), and I watched television as well. Not excessively much, of course, and my parents *did* have a 1-hour policy (which I gladly broke whenever possible ;p).

In any case, when I have kids, I surely won’t consider television and computers ‘evil’ or anything and make them stay the furthest away from them as possible. On the other hand, I will not accept them becoming telly-addicts, of course. Ahwell, it all boils down to moderation and common sense, really. Also, many people have many different views on this subject. As long as you don’t allow your children anything at all, or let them run on the loose (I really don’t like those kinds of parents), there are varying degrees in the strictness parents can have, and there’s not much wrong with either way. From experience I can say it is even different within one family, I was raised a somewhat stricter than my little brother. With your first child you are unsure what to do and what’s best, while with the second, never mind the fourth, you know the drill by then.

~Grauw “naïve 21-year old, I guess”

By: dieKrähe.com

dieKrähe.com — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 09:02:14 +0000

Video Morphine
That’s always been what I’ve called TV. Be it for children or adults. Hell, I even see my cats staring at the glowing box every once in a while. Eric Meyers most recent blog entry jumps onto this topic, while talking about his daughters cranky mood.
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By: DigitalHobbit

DigitalHobbit — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 06:46:07 +0000

My daughters, 3 and 1 years old, both enjoy many of the Baby Einstein DVDs. The combination of (usually) classical music, strong colors, and frequently changing scenes appears to be very stimulating to them. We generally try not to go overboard with allowing the kids to watch TV, but at the same time we are not extremely restrictive either. In fact, my three year old daughter usually does not even have the patience to sit through a whole TV show (let alone a full movie, as some of her friends already watch), so she has a pretty healthy attitude towards TV.

I was never much restricted about watching TV when I grew up, but then again when I was a small kid, there were only very few TV shows for kids (this was in Germany). These days, I hardly watch any TV, although I have to admit that it has become slightly more since we bought our TiVo… ;)

By: Josh King

Josh King — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 04:16:24 +0000

I grew up watching several hours of TV a day. A few years ago I pulled the plug and I’m much more in tune with things now. When I watch TV now, I realize that what you end up watching is 1/3 ads and I get frustrated by it. Very smart parenting move. I wish mine would have done the same.

By: Andrew Sidwell

Andrew Sidwell — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 22:58:37 +0000

I’m still a teenager, and I watched television all the time until I was around 11, when I discovered the internet. So now my parents watch TV all the time and I sit in front of the computer most of the time, occasionally watching the news. I’m pretty sure I’d be less creative if I was still watching TV all the time.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:13:06 +0000

We’ve watched quite a lot of television with our 5 year old as he’s grown up. TV shows for kids have actually become pretty educational in the years since I was a kid and it just “rotted your brain.” And our son is and avid reader, both online and in dead-tree format, as Mr Smith mentioned above. Watching television frequently is not bad for you necessarily, it’s just that it tends to go along with other bad habits that are terrible, such as shoving the kid in front of the TV for 5 hours while you talk on the phone about soap operas to your friends. Like everything else, TV is great in moderation