Owwwww... my head hurts!
Jul. 28th, 2006 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
are you contradicting yourself or have i miss something? you say OMG TV IS BAD, but that the concept of spending every waking hour playing with the baby is a modern conceit because until now, people had to get their work done. so in the past, how is it that kids entertained themselves? did tv not play a part? wacky things like sesame street, the electric company, etc.......
Aside from the fact that I did *not* say OMG TV IS BAD (I said that in very young children, television watching has been linked to AD(H)D), I'm curious how, exactly, this person thinks any child ever survived long enough to invent television.
(After being informed by somebody much nicer than I am that plenty of people have lived their entire lives without electricity, much less television...)
Plenty of cultures don't have tv or even electricity....
True, and plenty of cultures believe in genital mutilation of females. Other cultures are hardly the point here, since obviously we *do* have electricity since it's on the internetses.
And honestly, tv is not the end of the world. I'll never apologise for using it to entertain my kids when I need to get a few things done - nor do I think should anyone have to.
Because not letting Ana watch TV on my watch*, that's *so* horrible! Why, I ought to just go and cut off some parts of her body while I'm at it! Without the benefit of modern medical techniques or anesthesia!
Or maybe I should just start keeping the TV on all day, so that the kid is completely unable to function without having it on, as is the case with quite a few kids I knew growing up. That's a plan.
*I don't really care if Ana watches TV with her parents or grandparents. Or even with me, frankly. A limited amount of television, though, because she's only three (not under one, like the OP, who seems to live in this world, unlike the commenter above). It's just that we go places, and Jenn's DVD player sucks, so there's no real *point* to watching TV. Plus, I find her actions to be more interesting when she's making stuff up on her own rather than watching something. But catch me telling this person that now that she's had to go and be all... I don't know.
I should add that I'm not completely clear about Ana's parents' stance on TV, though I assume that it partially mimics my own. They do a lot of not-watching-tv stuff with her, anyway.
Aside from the fact that I did *not* say OMG TV IS BAD (I said that in very young children, television watching has been linked to AD(H)D), I'm curious how, exactly, this person thinks any child ever survived long enough to invent television.
(After being informed by somebody much nicer than I am that plenty of people have lived their entire lives without electricity, much less television...)
Plenty of cultures don't have tv or even electricity....
True, and plenty of cultures believe in genital mutilation of females. Other cultures are hardly the point here, since obviously we *do* have electricity since it's on the internetses.
And honestly, tv is not the end of the world. I'll never apologise for using it to entertain my kids when I need to get a few things done - nor do I think should anyone have to.
Because not letting Ana watch TV on my watch*, that's *so* horrible! Why, I ought to just go and cut off some parts of her body while I'm at it! Without the benefit of modern medical techniques or anesthesia!
Or maybe I should just start keeping the TV on all day, so that the kid is completely unable to function without having it on, as is the case with quite a few kids I knew growing up. That's a plan.
*I don't really care if Ana watches TV with her parents or grandparents. Or even with me, frankly. A limited amount of television, though, because she's only three (not under one, like the OP, who seems to live in this world, unlike the commenter above). It's just that we go places, and Jenn's DVD player sucks, so there's no real *point* to watching TV. Plus, I find her actions to be more interesting when she's making stuff up on her own rather than watching something. But catch me telling this person that now that she's had to go and be all... I don't know.
I should add that I'm not completely clear about Ana's parents' stance on TV, though I assume that it partially mimics my own. They do a lot of not-watching-tv stuff with her, anyway.
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Date: 2006-07-29 12:26 am (UTC)No, I'm sorry, my bad. I mean to say, they used their up-to-date daycare system for that purpose! Education was both free and compulsury for the first six years of a child's life!
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Date: 2006-07-29 12:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-29 12:28 am (UTC)