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From: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: kids without TV
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 00:41:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 00:41:54 1985
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Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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My oldest daughter, now 8, watched lots of TV when she was younger.
The reason is not something I'm proud of, but it is the truth: I was
often too tired to think of anything better to do with her.  I had a
rule for myself: I had to watch it with her.  I can't tell you for sure
if this rule was really so I could judge her watching habits or just to
punish myself for being such a bad parent (as I felt I was).
(Hold the sympathetic or bucking-up remarks: this was 6 years ago with my first child: I now
have another and lots more confidence).

She (and I) saw lots of sesame
street and electric company, but no he-man or smurfs because I didn't
like them.  The good news is that since she turned 6 and started reading
she has prefered reading to TV (and she prefers her friends to reading)
even though she was certainly a TV baby.  The bad news is that we cannot
seem to find enough books for her to read even with extremely frequent
trips to the library, and she has re-read her favorites ten or more times.
	-mark


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