Dirgin Views by Qirginia

"Further thoughts

on Children."

Susanna has brought up the subject of children and TV intentionally in such a way as to attempt to arouse some response, some dialogue on the subject. To encourage the rest of you I will throw in my few cents worth first.

I suppose it is my brother's training as a scientist (some of which carries over onto me) that makes me tend to reject the obvious as probably in- correct and generally tending to obscure the more subtle aspects of a problem. The obvious answer to the question of children and TV--the answer 90% of the psychiatrists and the great majority of wives would give, is simple...."Don't let them know about it". This seems such a foregone conclusion and such "obvious" common sense that few people tend to think about the matter any further. TV is considered an "unfortunate condition" to put it as mildly as poss- ible and one which should be avoided at almost all costs. So naturally anything "bad" should be spared the children.

One might well ask why it is so "bad" but you are not likely to get a very clearly thought out logical answer, so don't waste time asking the question. It's "abnormal", "unusual", "different", "non-conforming", "confusing", etc. so naturally the little darlings should be protected from this, just as they must be protected from every other "danger",

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