[af_vet_rr]

Many parents just don't want to take the time, effort, trouble to discipline and teach their children - to show them real love. Real love means raising them properly. If a parent's idea of real life means instant gratification, he or she won't want to take time out from their own personal enjoyment to deal with kids the way they need.

In a way it's amusing, but it's still tragic. You see all of these parents who get their blood pressure up over sex education, homosexuality, etc., and yet what do they let their kids do - watch TV all the time.

I've got a friend that I sort of upset/tweaked a few months ago - He was going on and on that kids need to be taught abstinence and morality. I asked him the million dollar question - "if you really believe that, then why do you let your kids spend hours in front of the TV every night watching TV shows that glorify the very things you despise".

When my children were growing up, many is the time they were upset with my wife and I, but since they've become adults, they've thanked us - I think it started sinking in with them when they were in college, and they saw just how little many parents really care about their kids.

[little jeremiah]

Agreement here. TV is, at BEST, a thief of time, and that is all the currency any of us have. And we have no idea how much we have to spend, either.

And TV is at worst, a brain and heart defiler.

And AFAIK it's usually both.

I have had a TV for about 1 or 2 years total in the last - hmmm, since I was an adult.