Goodbye sweet cable box...Here we are in our parting ritual. Husband is upset he won't be watching the Tour de France in July, which only airs on a digital cable channel. I am upset about not being able to get my daily dose of Steve Ross's "Inhale." But we will survive. No, we will thrive.
We are keeping basic cable so we won't have to drag out rabbit ears for news, "The Office" and "Saturday Night Live." We are saving $87 a month by doing this.
The kids have only watched about 5 hours of TV since we started this experiment. No complaints so far.
I've been asked if I feel it was right to tell the youngsters that the television broke. "Is lying better than TV?" One of my friends asks.
I think it was too difficult to tell them the metaphysical ways in which the television really is broken. But for the record I had a talk with the three-year-old and asked him how he felt about it and about what happened and he said the TV "makes my brain all jittery."
wow. tv makes my brain all jittery too.
ReplyDeleteI like that-- about the metaphysical ways in which the tv really is broken.
I remember some people who told me that not having television while raising a young child was naive on my part at best and possibly limiting my child's potential at worst, because as they said, "he lives in this media saturated society, he needs to learn how to manage it". wha??? He's 17 now. He has never, not once, asked if we could get cable. he's watched plenty of movies and he's been to friends' homes where there was cable, but he's never asked us to get it. I've never heard a complaint about lack of it.
He did have an assignment in school once, to watch a certain program and do a report on it. I had a talk with the teacher and he was given an alternative assignment.