Comments on: Here We Go Again… http://www.familyresource.com/blog/2006/09/29/here-we-go-again/ Providing Tools for Life Through Online Education Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:09:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jon Henshaw http://www.familyresource.com/blog/2006/09/29/here-we-go-again/#comment-152 Jon Henshaw Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:02:13 +0000 http://www.familyresource.com/blog/2006/09/29/here-we-go-again/#comment-152 We used to be hardcore like you -- well maybe you've been more hardcore than we've ever been -- but we finally gave in and it's great if done in moderation (like most things). We have a modest TV and Tivo and are in entertainment heaven. We now get to watch the handful of shows we would always miss, because we would be putting our kids to bed. We try to only watch about 2 hours max per night and we only let our kids -- really just my almost 3-year-old daughter -- watch an hour a day, if any, and that's usually just Dora the Explorer and/or Charlie and Lola. So enjoy it! TV is not bad in and of itself. It's only bad if it's the only thing on your mind and you spend at least 8 hours a day watching it -- which by the way is the new national average. Crazy, I know. We used to be hardcore like you — well maybe you’ve been more hardcore than we’ve ever been — but we finally gave in and it’s great if done in moderation (like most things). We have a modest TV and Tivo and are in entertainment heaven.

We now get to watch the handful of shows we would always miss, because we would be putting our kids to bed. We try to only watch about 2 hours max per night and we only let our kids — really just my almost 3-year-old daughter — watch an hour a day, if any, and that’s usually just Dora the Explorer and/or Charlie and Lola.

So enjoy it! TV is not bad in and of itself. It’s only bad if it’s the only thing on your mind and you spend at least 8 hours a day watching it — which by the way is the new national average. Crazy, I know.

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