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To: The Philosopher who wrote (3118)	7/4/1999 11:51:00 PM
From: B.C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Agree wholeheartedly! Very nicely put, Chris!

To: The Philosopher who wrote (3118)	7/5/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Chris, I am NOT going to pick you up on a typo in you posting; it is there, however. As for television, I wonder if we can lay so much of the blame on it as you suggest. I grew up with television, but in my parents' home television was a source of entertainment rather than the primary source. Both of my parents read a great deal and books were everywhere. I am sure that the reason I learned to read at such an early age was the enjoyment I could see my parents derive from reading. My mother came from a clan of puzzlers and cardplayers. (You haven't lived until you've experienced full-contact rummy or checkers!) She introduced me to crosswords until Sunday morning after church turned into a wrestling match for The New York Times. Because my mother worked, an aunt looked after my sister and me during the day. She was a very creative person and from her we learned the rudiments of drawing, including perspective, as well an needlework. For Halloween we'd make our costumes out of basted crepe paper, stuck-on glitter, what have you. Yet television was there all the time. It was one of many forms of entertainment and there was no need to ration it, as some parents feel is necessary. We'd make our selections of programs or old movies that we wanted to watch and keep an eye out for the starting time. (In fact, I remember once pleading to stay up to watch a program that sounded so interesting but was past my bed time, to no avail. Five minutes into the program, my father got me out of bed to see it, noting that it really was, after all, worth staying up to see.) What made the difference was the entire attitude in the household toward television. It was not the babysitter. A good book or a sketch pad or bit of hairpin lace came closer to fulfilling that function. I do remember being frightfully disappointed by school because all the learning I had been doing until then had been fun. Even things that had to be learned by rote had been a challenging game. It took a long time before I could enjoy learning in school.