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Originally posted by Alien Mind
reply to post by seataka
Like i said unless you are willing to throw away all your teach then your words mean nothing.
Its easy to say you want to do something but its total different to do it.
[edit on 13-6-2009 by Alien Mind]
A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[1] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.[1] [2] Presenting and refuting a weakened form of an opponent's argument can be a part of a valid argument. For example, one can argue that the opposing position implies that at least one of two other statements - both being presumably easier to refute than the original position - must be true. If one refutes both of these weaker propositions, the refutation is valid and does not fit the above definition of a "straw man" argument.
Originally posted by TurkeyBurgers
So now when you see your children hanging out with their friends and the group of friends get around to talking about the latest episode of "Heroes" your kid can look like a weirdo outcast Amish family who do not own a T.V. Way to go Mom! Applause!
Come on Mom! Do not tell me you have no concept of the word "Clique"?
Social hierarchy is not something that kids mimic it is something they invent. Fitting in is so VERY important to children.
Clothing indicates your social status or your wealth status in the hierarchy.
Popularity is also VERY important to children. NO kids wants to be the smelly kid or the kid who does not fit in.
Do you really think there is a "Cut off from modern means of entertainment" lunch table your children will be sitting at? All you are going to do is contribute in your child being picked last for kickball and getting a crappy horrible nickname.
Give back the T.V. and PlayStation. Put LIMITS on it.
Do your Job as a parent.
Originally posted by just_another_yourself
good for you and blessed be your children!
you will love this video it is so insiteful!!
here is the url
www.youtube.com...
more should learn from you. i have met people that grew up without tv and they read and read their whole lives. brilliant minds
[edit on 13-6-2009 by just_another_yourself]
The child that is confronted from early youth with all modern devices and gadgets of technology-the radio, the motor, the television set, the film--- is unwittingly conditioned to millions of associations, sounds, pictures, movements, in which he takes no part He has no need to think about them. They are too directly connected with his senses.
Modern technology teaches man to take for granted the world he is looking at; he takes no time to retreat and reflect. Technology lures him on, dropping him into its wheels and movements. No rest, no meditation, no reflection, no conversation-the senses are continually overloaded with stimuli. The child doesn't learn to question his world any more; the screen offers him answers-ready-made. Even his books offer him no human encounter-nobody reads to him; the screen people tell him their story in their way. Technical knowledge forced upon him in this way makes no demand that he think about what he sees and hears.
Conversation is becoming a lost art.
Popularity is also VERY important to children. NO kids wants to be the smelly kid or the kid who does not fit in.
Do you really think there is a "Cut off from modern means of entertainment" lunch table your children will be sitting at? All you are going to do is contribute in your child being picked last for kickball and getting a crappy horrible nickname.