10-08-2003, 05:45 AM
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Originally posted by jseal
Lilith,
The amount of vacuous, empty and useless television programming so overwhelms the amount of (even generously defined) good and valuable television, that it beggars comparison. NBC, CBS, ABC and WBN each dwarf PBS – let alone in total. PBS must routinely purchase programming from abroad to flesh out its schedule.
“The Beverly Hillbillies”, “Gilligan’s Island” and “McHale’s Navy” remain afternoon VHF staples. As for network afternoon fare: “The Guiding Light”, “General Hospital” and “As the World Turns” serve up fascinating role models for impressionable children. Perhaps one should take one’s social direction from “The Simpsons” or “Malcolm In The Middle”?
“And you are right on with it being a toold children use for socialization” True - if TV is what one wants to socialize about. Is that the direction that one, as a responsible parent, should be steering one’s children?
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I think I was clear that parents should choose appropriate shows, not trash, or allow free reign, and regardless of what we would prefer children share with one another, TV gives them a commonality. In a perfect world our kids would all sit around in literature circles and discuss the zillion books or life experiences they have in common but in a culturally diverse community it is good for kids to have something that they can all relate to. When you are working on social skills with children with disabilities one of the first things to use is television, giving them something, anything, to draw on when trying to be sociable. I am not judging right or wrong I am just speaking of what is our current reality.
I know children who have grown up without TV and are perfectly wonderful, responsible, intelligent, social people but the exact same can be said for people who watched TV. Personally it's not my thing, I have too much to do. |