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>>She didn't allow 'active viewing'--they had to sit still or get out. <<

My kids watched Star Trek Voyager together for years - it was one of the
shows they all three loved and they'd keep track of when it was on and make
sure we recorded it if we weren't going to be home. We have a big-screen tv
in our living room - and a small-screen tv in our bedroom. They got in the
habit of watching Voyager always in the bedroom -- I'd go look at them all
piled all over each other on our waterbed, cuddling and laughing and talking
and giggling and making comments throughout the show. They'd seen them all
before -- and didn't mind missing some of it. It was VERY active viewing.

It drove me nuts to watch it like that - although I LOVED seeing them doing
it. So, if I really wanted to watch, instead of watching with them, I'd go
watch in the living room or watch it later on my own.

Once again this was a show with a LOT to offer -- lots of relationship stuff
-- you should HEAR the kids talking out how one person behaved to another and
what their motivation was and the likely reaction and so on... Also lots of
science interest was generated by it. Lots of wanting to know what was real
and what was fiction.

And - even if I couldn't come up with one single redeeming tidbit of value -
enjoyment is enough. Plus add to it that these three girls usually have
interests that are very different from each other's and this was something
they did together and enjoyed together in their very own special way.

--pam

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On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:47:37 EST PSoroosh@... writes:
>
> And - even if I couldn't come up with one single redeeming tidbit of
> value -
> enjoyment is enough.

Absolutely! Never underestimate enjoyment.

Deb L