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Originally posted by elevatedone
Good Job.
I was amazed that when my daughter was 13 she told me that she reads a lot of books. She'll be 17 soon and still enjoys reading.
I'm buying her several for her birthday.
Originally posted by whaaa
Nice goin AD. Are you going to take away the computer too?
It has been my experience that the www. is much more seductive and addictive than TV could ever be. I haven't watched TV in over 4 years.
[edit on 12-6-2009 by whaaa]
Originally posted by AccessDenied
over a year ago I met someone who didn't own a TV....Wanna know what that person did with their time?
Aside from holding a full time job at a youth facility, this person traveled around the world, teaching English in China, surfing in Hawaii, bicycle tour of Germany, got a pilot's license for both plane and helicopter,and Road trip of the United States. This person had every sport equipment known to man....
bike, roller blades, skis, snowboard, kayak, wind sail board....you name it....
Favorite pastime though..frisbee on the beach.
YOU can't experience life in front of a box in your living room. PERIOD.
Originally posted by CX
There is so much rubbish on tv for kids these days, i just read this post to my little one and at first she raised her eyebrows at the prospect of no tv, then she said, "The kids programmes are pretty boring nowadays".
CX.
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"?
Originally posted by NoJoker13
reply to post by bronwyn82
You must never had a real friend that could play something and talk about something totally different... or actually had a conversation. Why are things always in extremes?
I really, really hope you did all this with completely unselfish thought and with the true belief that it will benefit your kids and not because you think it makes you appear to be a good, caring mother to other people.
Originally posted by StevenDye
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Personally, I don't think adults can take a part in this discussion.
I am 17 (almost) so I will put myself in the top end of ages suitable of answering the subject at hand.
People can argue "We didn't have all these channels or videos games in my day, and we turned out fine." But there you highlight your own biggest problem. "WE didn't have"; collectively a large protion of people 'didn't have' so life was different back then. I remember before DVDS came out, people didn't watch as many films because the videos took more time and space, but they came out when I was very young and I moved with the times, and still don't get how my parents watch so few films.
Life changes VERY quickly. ...
Originally posted by NoJoker13
reply to post by bronwyn82
Like i said lame friends and your extremely stereo-typical, whatever your world make it what you wish.