Twins Without Television: Week 3, Day 5

Yeah, TGIF! Well, it is TGIF for me, not so much for my twins since they will not be watching television all today and probably this weekend. Well, it is supposed to rain, but we have a lot of things to do in the house. We have games to play and well, movies are not really television, so I might allow a couple movies.

Anyway, I was trying to read to them from the "What Your Second Grader Should Know", book and they would not sit still. So, I told them they would get no television Friday or this weekend. Do you think I am too hard on them? I do not think so.

Well, last night I was going to read to them from the history section of this book: American History and Geography. This is just a little section, but would my twins sit still...noooooooo. So, they got their day of television taken away. Oh well, I will do some Spanish and Italian lessons with them and we can play one or two Brain Quest games.

Alright my friends, well have a blessed weekend and stay safe. I will write again on Monday. Yeah, going on week 4!

Ciao!

Twins Without Television: Week 2, Day 3

Oh yeah, twins have made it over the HUMP without any television viewing. It certainly is nice having my twins come in the backdoor and not hearing them say they want to watch TV. The best thing about not watching television is, my twins brains are not being filled with nonsense. Nonsense would be things that are disrespectful to parents.

Like I wrote about last week, these shows on television today are written where the kids are "ruling" over the parents. These kids in the television shows, popular name kids channels of course, have their writers writing all these lines for some of the actors ages 5-18, maybe, totally backtalking to their television parents.

Now, I am not sure if the shows I used to watch in the 1970s, 1980s and even early 1990s, had kids in the television shows talking like these kids on television do today. Tell me, how is this a good thing for our children and our society when children are no longer respecting their parents?

Yeah, not good at all.

Aside from the disrespectful speech in these "kids" television shows, television drains the brains. I came to this conclusion, well.....last June. I figure, if I can do this, stop watching television, so to can my twins, right?

I was just talking to hubby about this last night.

I said, "Well kids in the early 1900s did not watch television and they did alright."
Then is says, "Were you there?"
"Of course not", I said and "It was probably the best thing that could have happened to those kids back then."

So, this is where I will end today on.....TWINS.....Without Television: Week 2, Day 2