What’s up with people? Why do so many insist that watching a little TV is going to ruin their kids? I don’t understand that and so far no one has even presented a reasonable argument against it.
I mean all I really hear from people is that they limit the TV viewing their children have or they use TV viewing as a reward if all their tasks are done or they don’t have a TV or certainly NOT a TV in every room. I don’t know why they think this is a good thing. Do they think that they and their child will be in front of the TV every second of every day?
That might be bad. Too much of a good thing probably does make it a bad thing. Probably too much lettuce is not good either!
And yes, I did spend many years in the TV industry, specifically in TV promotion. I guess you could say my job was to get people to watch more TV. That’s not what I’m writing about though. I don’t care if you watch or not. What I like about TV has to do about story, creativity, production, information and life.
I love to read. Why? Because I love the story, the way words are put together, the way emotion is evoked. It’s the same with TV...every show has a story, sports have a story. Video has always been accused of taking the imagination out of the book. Somebody else chooses the outfits for the characters, the setting, the angles, the characters characteristics. Uh-huh. But every time I go back to the book, I still picture it back in the setting of my mind, not what the movie has shown.
I think TV offers opportunity for children to learn creativity, emotion and the way things work in life. It gives them ideas and dreams and direction. It took all of those things to get the program on TV. Certainly we can glean those out and learn.
People complain that when the kids are in front of the TV, the moms aren’t interacting with them enough. What I love about TV is that so often it brings our family together. Now most of our kids are at the age where they enjoy watching American Idol. We look forward to it and gather together with our dinner plates and critique and cheer the performances. It’s a chance to discuss everything from lifestyles to talent to dreams in life to tattoos, hair styles, clothing choices, and how people treat other people. The conversations are spontaneous, but our kids learn a lot from us just sitting with us. And because it’s fun, everybody wants to be there.
The same things happen with sports programming. It draws us together on a Sunday afternoon. It’s fun, it’s a party, it’s togetherness.
Do you use your TV to your advantage? Do you really think it’s a bad thing? Or do you just tell people you do because it seems like the right thing?
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