Is TV destroying us?

[scooterbug44]

The average age a child in the US starts watching TV is 9 months old and the average adult watches 4 hours a day. Doctors & psychiatrists are already noting possible links between too much TV and ADD, obesity, anxiety, and myriad other physical and social issues.

Do you think too much TV is destroying us?

 

[seacrestkristi]

Funny you should ask, let me turn it on and find out

 

[Hop]

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[Smiling JOe]

Chavez apparently uses it to control his peeps. :funn:

 

[Mango]

What will I watch tonight now that it's the summer?
Nope, no anxiety here. Don't know what you're talking about?

 

[scooterbug44]

When I was growing up, family vacations were spent at a cabin w/ no television and limited radio reception. We spent our evenings/down time talking, reading, or playing cards and board games w/ our parents, grandparents, and cousins.

With the exception of football playoffs and the Superbowl, no television was allowed when there were guests over.

Occassionally, if we rented a family movie it was allowed for us to eat dinner in front of the TV, but still as a family.

During car trips we were entertained by travel versions of games, books on tape, and car games. Plane flights involved card games and quiet versions of car games.

Now it seems that the TV is everywhere - people want them in their kitchens, bathrooms, holiday bunkrooms need to have internet access and cable, and cars and boats have dvd players to entertain the kids when they are on the move.

 

[6thGen]

Too much water can kill you too. How do you suggest solving the problem?

 

[scooterbug44]

Is overconsumption of water a major problem in the US or did you just get tired of arguing about Iraq?

 

[Jdarg]

Is overconsumption of water a major problem in the US or did you just get tired of arguing about Iraq?

gem of the day

 

[barefootguy]

I stopped watching tv in the early 80's, so hopefully it won't destroy me.