One nation
under God
has turned into
one nation under the influence
of one drug

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V., it satellite links
our United States of Unconsciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
The methadone metronome pumping out
150 channels 24 hours a day
you can flip through all of them
and still there's nothing worth watching
T.V. is the reason why less than 10 per cent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central Amerika
means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican
and Apartheid is a new headache remedy
absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our mind the most
maybe the mother of our Nation
should remind us
that we're sitting too close...

I used to love staying at home with our youngest and watching CBeebies for hours on end, (when she was still pre-school age). The thing is that we also used to talk and play games and generally interact, not just sit there like zombies. As long as kids aren't just being left alone in front of the telly I don't think there's a problem.

We don't have a tv where we eat meals tho, and nobody ever eats in front of the TV.

+1

No TVs in the bedrooms either, just in the lounge and in the party room - currently only DVDs, we need to run a second cable from the satellite dish down to the cellar...

Well they obviously watch more than I did but then it wasn't on 24 hours a day and for quite a while there were only three channels.

Funnily enough in Finland there are only a few state channels and they're not on all day. A coincidence that their kids don't start school till the age of 7, receive less hours teaching and yet are one of the highest performing nations in Europe?