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From: ken@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Throwing out the TV (was: Living in the 20th C)
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Date: 8 Mar 88 14:34:47 GMT
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From recent correspondence:
>About your attention span problems with TV info versus
>print media - my serious suggestion would be to get
>rid of the TV.

A little observation here. My kids (7 and 11 years) are both quite
creative, and they enjoy making things out of household odds and ends.
(Yes, I know that's not prodigious -- that isn't my point.)
I've noticed how often visitors who see them making something will
*immediately* ask `Do you have a television?', the implication
being that we don't have one and that if we did the kids wouldn't
have got into the way of making amusements for themselves.

I'm not preaching -- really -- yes, I do have television, though I find
radio better for most things.
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