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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (6270)3/14/2001 6:59:26 AM
From: Oral Roberts  Read Replies (1) of 59480
 
If I were to offer 1 important piece of advice to a new parent it would be to throw the television away when you bring your baby home. Unfortunately I know this from my own experience. I'm not blaming the programing for society's ills. It's the fact that it requires no thought. Kids don't learn to play, interact or entertain themselves. I really think it is a direct cause for many of our problems. Parents my age almost used the tv as a baby sitter. Numbs their minds and the secondary effect is you are not spending time with your child reading or interacting in any other way.

If you don't have a tv you are forced to take your child outside to play or to read to them or whatever else. In other words interact and teach them the joy of reading or the ability to entertain themselves. Your forced to open their mind to the world around them sparking their creativity and interest in the world.

I sadly feel this was my and many of my friends biggest downfall as parents. I can meet friends and classmates of my daughters and within minutes I can tell you how much time they have spent watching tv and whether their parents used Barney movies or whatever else as a babysitter.

We have a whole generation of mind numbed kids out there and we as parents were the problem with tv's help:(
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