Pam Hartley

***<<Now just because I choose to avoid tv, I am not sitting in judgement of
others who choose tv.>>

You can say that, but by banning it from your house, you are saying it is a
very bad thing, bad for babies, bad for children, unnatural, harmful.


Sandra, it sounds like you are saying, that a person has no rights to have
choices in their lives, if one makeschoices it automatically implies a
judgement upon another's choice. So where do you draw the line then, on
choices in your life, what you are willing to be exposed to and expose your
family to? Are there no lines in your life at all? Is anything that exists
fair game for your family? How about dangerous things that are hard to
argue about like heroin?***


I'm not Sandra, but I do definitely draw the line at my 7 year old taking
heroin. I'm sure she would learn something from it, but I am unreasonably
adamant.

Once again: drug use is illegal. Television is not. That's one big
difference.


*** If you do have lines in your life are you the pot
calling the kettle black because you are criticizing me for having different
lines than you.***

If you are letting your children use heroin, you betcha I'm sitting in
judgment of you.

Sandra said: ***You can say that, but by banning it from your house, you are
saying it is a
very bad thing, bad for babies, bad for children, unnatural, harmful.***

She said it about television, you're comparing it to heroin. So please tell
me what part of that quote you have a problem applying to heroin use or
abuse. I ban it from my house. If my child asked, I would tell her it's bad
for babies and children.


***Is there no
difference between saying I do not like a "thing" (tv) for example, and
passing a judgement on another persons choice to have a tv?***

Sure, there's a big difference. I can say, "I don't like cauliflower" and
you can say, "Really? I love cauliflower" and this is neither of us being
judgmental of the other.

OTOH, I could say, "I don't like cauliflower. I will also not allow my
children to eat it because a group over there says it causes sinus upset and
I hear Hitler loved cauliflower" and you, as a cauliflower-eating person,
might feel I was judging you as not caring about your children's sinuses and
possible future as Nazis.

I don't think anyone here cares if you or I like TV. There is a concept
called unschooling and I (and others) have been arguing that by not trusting
children to make their own decisions about TV we do them a disservice in the
pursuit of unschooling.


***It may be that tv free parents are not free to converse with
each other on this list***

They absolutely are, as long as by "free" you don't mean "free from anyone
else challenging their ideas". If you DO mean that, it's a matter for
private e-mail, or maybe an no-TV support list.

Pam

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