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Do we watch too much TV?
Posted by sjtavo • 10/11/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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When I was growing up, we kids were not allowed to watch TV during the week - Friday night through Sunday at 8 was the only time period we could even have the TV on. These days, it seems people park their kids in front of the TV to use it as a babysitter, schedule their lives around sitcoms/dramas, etc.... and read even less.
I am guilty of turning my TV on for noise - and then doing something else....getting on the computer, cleaning, reading, crocheting, anything. To this day I can't really stand to sit and watch a lot of TV - I feel like I'm wasting time just watching television.
Thoughts? Do you think TV has an effect on kids' grades/attitudes?
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There are only 2 things I watch on tv: NBC's Heroes and sports. I really never turn on the tv unless for those 2 things. -
sports is pretty broad-based. in my family, notre dame games were always a gimmee LOL
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Well, I hate baseball, so I skip all that. The same with hockey. I watch the LA Lakers religiously so I always tune in to them. I also love college football and the 49ers. And, I watch all the UFC ppvs.
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Haven't seen UFC in ages! Wasn't that banned at one point, temporarily? Last I watched it, Hugo Garcia was fighting... all I can remember =(
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My kids and I don't watch a lot of tv either. We prefer playing outside. Now Sundays (during football season), we are glued to the tv all day. -
Yeah FTV..they educate us with human anatomy -
It doesn't really matter if I think that TV has an effect on kids grades/attitudes, science has already proven that it has an effect on everybody. There are dozens of articles available online, of course.
I didn't watch TV for 10 years (& still don't watch much.) After a couple of weeks your brain starts working again. It's amazing & liberating. I highly recommend it. -
I know people who spend all their free time parked in front of the TV. It's not good for anyone. I don't let my kids watch TV except on weekends, rarely on weeknights. If their grades slip, no TV at all. However, we watch a movie every night, one of MY choosing. My kids do well in school and are not behavior problems. The biggest problem kids are those whose parents are too busy watching American Idol or that other crap on TV and their kids are not as important to them. It's sickening. -
I watched a lot of TV when I was a kid. It was great. All the classic movies, cartoons, and every legendary American comic from Jimmy Durante to Groucho Marx. I learned more on that "boob tube" and had more fun than I ever did in school. I don't know much about contemporary TV, because I haven't owned a set in over 30 years. -
I spend much of my free time watching TV and i've never felt like i could have used the thousands of my TV hours better! I'm telling you, whoever invented TV reinvented life! -
After school days or work days, I'd usually have the TV up and running while on my pc. I normally would watch some fun, brainless shows like Family Guy, Friends, Two and a Half Men, Raymond, etc. Before then, I would run to it for WWF Raw and Smackdown, sometimes switching between WWF and WCW. The wrestling love ended in 2001 though, when it started becoming way too lame for my tastes.
I love it when they have coaster shows about top thrill rides, making coasters, etc. I also make sure to tune into anything dinosaur related as well. Lately, I've also had a knack for some of those mystery drama, I watch Lie to Me, NCIS (New York one), Fastforward and Bones.-
OMG, professional wrestling!
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Yeah, TV sucks. It's pretty much always a waste of time to watch it, except sometimes for the news. TV dramas and sitcoms? Please! But what's this talk about hating baseball?
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I guess firstly how much is too much TV? I might be showing my age but when I was a kid we had 3 channels and they didn't start braodcasting until lunchtime. There was an allocated slot for kids TV which was about an hour each day. It was fairly easy to walk a way and play with my friends as kids should. Now there is SKY with its few hundred channels 24/7 and freeview with its 50+ channels. In fact specific channels are allocated to kids which transmit even when they are at school.
In a few words, of course we watch too much TV because it's accesible and doesn't take too much effort both physically and mentally. They even invented the remote control so we didn't exert ourselves too much! -
should I ever have a child, I think I'll heavily regulate the tv watching. and for the record - i understand the point of the Disney Channel because at least it's "wholesome" television for children but OMG it's sooooo freaking annoying! Hannah Montana needs to be shot, I can't stand those damn twins Zack and Cody and don't get me started on the cheesy Wizards of Waverly Place! What happened to good shows like the A-team and MacGyver where tools were fabricated and nobody ever died? LMAO
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You say Disney is wholesome and I guess it is, but does it need to have it's own channel? How many channels will there be in another 10 years? I remember MacGyver was he the guy who had a penknife and could turn a paper clip and some glue into a full military arsenal that didn't kill anyone!
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Well what kills me about disney is that it's the same shit all day long - yuck. i hate that channel. as for MacGyver, he just rocks!!!!
i don't know - if i do watch tv, it's usually Bones or Numbers - something that at least makes me think or something like Dirty Jobs or anything on Discovery - to learn something new. I do not watch sitcoms or animated shows at all - blah! -
I've seen bones and numbers (these are cool shows)and CSI. The only thing with CSI is how it manages to make some boring, laborious and tedious lab test exciting and glamerous (and may I add everyones' lab coats are immaculate and no-one wears rubber gloves)
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Attitudes? Probably.
Grades? Well ... it's mostly the schools' fault for making learning so unbelievably boring. -
I have it on while online~ mostly for hearing/listening ~ LOL but I do have an addiction to Chance of Love on VH1 :P:P
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