Comments on: TV: Yay or Nay? http://theaccidentalteacher.com/2009/12/525/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=525 making the most out of teaching and learning.. inside and outside the four walls of the classroom Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:54:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Really Old Guy http://theaccidentalteacher.com/2009/12/525/comment-page-1/#comment-870 Really Old Guy Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:48:21 +0000 http://theaccidentalteacher.com/?p=525#comment-870 I'm perhaps "overconservative" when it comes to watching TV. When my children were little, I used to let them watch Saturday morning cartoons for several hours. Then, I watched some of the cartoons with them (and the commercials in-between). Most were innocuous, but some were outright foolish (Mutant Ninja Killer Tomatoes) and I didn't like all the commercials aimed at consumerism, so I cut off TV entirely. They read books instead. They absolutely LOVE reading, even now, seventeen years later. Reading alone has given them a "leg up" on all their peers. Of course, it doesn't hurt that their mother also home-schooled them and read to them EVERY day. I still like to hear my wife read aloud. We didn't get rid of the TV. We use it for movies we check out from the library, and for Netflix movies and for Superbowl and Olympics games. Otherwise, it stays off and we REALLY don't miss it at all! Instead, we talk. We read. We blog. Life is great! I’m perhaps “overconservative” when it comes to watching TV. When my children were little, I used to let them watch Saturday morning cartoons for several hours. Then, I watched some of the cartoons with them (and the commercials in-between). Most were innocuous, but some were outright foolish (Mutant Ninja Killer Tomatoes) and I didn’t like all the commercials aimed at consumerism, so I cut off TV entirely. They read books instead. They absolutely LOVE reading, even now, seventeen years later. Reading alone has given them a “leg up” on all their peers. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that their mother also home-schooled them and read to them EVERY day. I still like to hear my wife read aloud.

We didn’t get rid of the TV. We use it for movies we check out from the library, and for Netflix movies and for Superbowl and Olympics games. Otherwise, it stays off and we REALLY don’t miss it at all! Instead, we talk. We read. We blog. Life is great!

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