Re: [unschoolingbasics] TV Turnoff
[email protected]
In a message dated 3/18/2005 6:31:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
I just rejected two posts for being put-downs,rather than useful
discussion, but I thought one of the ideas was worth discussing for
it's sheer illogical point.
It was a response to this:
"No, joke! Heck, I sometimes wish t.v. my kids would get into a
state like this simply by having them watch t.v. My boys 6,5, and 2
watch t.v. 99.9% of the time and 99.9% of the time are literally
bouncing off the walls!"
The poster was implying that television would make kids hyper!!
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That's not what I got from her post at all. I read it as "It's ridiculus to
say it makes them Comatose. My kids are far from that and they watch alot of
TV. AND they watch, not BECAUSE they watch.
Elissa
Mystik Hill Farm
Kearneysville, WV
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[email protected] writes:
I just rejected two posts for being put-downs,rather than useful
discussion, but I thought one of the ideas was worth discussing for
it's sheer illogical point.
It was a response to this:
"No, joke! Heck, I sometimes wish t.v. my kids would get into a
state like this simply by having them watch t.v. My boys 6,5, and 2
watch t.v. 99.9% of the time and 99.9% of the time are literally
bouncing off the walls!"
The poster was implying that television would make kids hyper!!
***********************
That's not what I got from her post at all. I read it as "It's ridiculus to
say it makes them Comatose. My kids are far from that and they watch alot of
TV. AND they watch, not BECAUSE they watch.
Elissa
Mystik Hill Farm
Kearneysville, WV
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]