Posted on 02/17/2018 7:29:23 PM PST by Armen Hareyan
Even in France, known for its liberal approach to many things related to children and upbringing a new campaign calls to restrict children's screen time.
Smartphone, TV, computer: a new campaign calls for more restricted use to preserve health
The total time we spend online is more than 5 hours per day. Whether it's our smartphones, our computers, our televisions, we are surrounded by screens. This is not without presenting a danger to our health. Too much time spent in front of screens can cause an increase in sedentary lifestyle, the risk of musculoskeletal disorders, or endanger vision.
Before three years, it is best not to expose children to the TV. Here is how to keep Your children busy if You want to turn Off TV and spend time with them...
(Excerpt) Read more at emaxhealth.com ...
and after age 3 years, it is ALSO not healthy to expose kids (or adults) to the boobtoob
there’s nothing much magical about age 3, the boobtoob is unhealthy at any age
I see toddlers engrossed in their tablets, at many restaurants. Epidemic.
IMHO, it is NEVER a good idea to subject kids of any age to TV. Or video games. Or social media.
Let them grow up little first.
I totally agree.
I was just at a gathering of like-minded chassidic individuals. Happens to be we’re in the town south of Parkland, FL. Our rabbi told us the absolute horror of the families waiting to be told the fate of their unaccounted-for children that day....he spoke at the vigil, etc.
(Not to but yes to swing this thread to the religious)
Since we read in the Torah today of the building of the Tabernacle, he drew a comparison. The tabernacle had a courtyard with an altar— lots of blood, slaughtering, noise, fire, ash... a raucous. The “Holy” (the antechamber to the Holy of Holies) was quiet, refined. A menorah, incense, showbreads. The Holy of Holies was the innermost sanctuary and resting-place for G-d.
The killer, so to speak, brought the outside activities into the holy, quiet places. Children in school should feel that they are in a safe and “holy” place of development. What a perversion and a tragedy.
BUT then, as the gathering was at a house-warming party for another like-minded (read: MEGA-RIGHT-WING religio-political family ;) ) the rabbi took the time to implore us NOT to bring murder, rape, violence, trash, foul language, garbage culture in general INTO our homes. Our homes should be sanctuaries and the lil’ ol’ TV can corrupt and pervert them.
Well, that’s coming from someone with a long beard and black hat. To each his own— but the analogy is applicable to most FReepers to some degree I’m sure.
in addition to the famous remark of former FCC chairman Newton Minow (that TV is a Vast Wasteland),
TV’s inventor (or at least a major contributor to modern TV technology) Vladmir Zworykin (yes, a Jew, from Russia) ... who aspired to make good television possible in every home.... he had dreams of opera, symphony, great drama, education, intelligent discourse...would be brought to every individual and family. But, when he saw how his invention (cathode ray tv picture tubes that made modern electronic television practical)......
when he saw how his invention was actually being used (that is, when he saw what kind of largely-inane programming was being broadcast)......Zworykin said he wished he could have known, for he would have “smashed every tube” in his laboratory.
fortunately, there have always been a FEW good programs on the boobtoob
damned few nowadays, but yet... a few
Personally, I blame Fred Rogers
I was very surprised that PBS aired a short about a little boy whose birthday wish was to meet a survivor of Pearl Harbor, after reading a book about that day. I think the survivor was Donald Stratton who wrote All the Gallant Men with Ken Gire. The boy was only about 10 or 11 years old. He had a look of sheer admiration when he approached Mr. Stratton who gave him a big hug.
This was a rare moment that reminded me of what television can do, even on a PBS station.
The potential is there. Even pbs like nova, nature, some great performances and more. I figure tv is realizing about 5 percent of its potential
Even worse... they could start writing crappy blogs like yours.
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