Comments on: How to Raise your Child without Television

on 5/30/2008 Good steps to get started. I agree this is very possible to do. For good programming, another inexpensive option is to look for good movies or educational-type movies at the library. Typically,there's a good selection and it's free plus you can get even some good educational things that are well done and enjoyable to watch.

on 3/21/2008 This one isn't hard. Don't have a TV in the house.

on 1/25/2008 We try to mix it up. Of course, as movie reviewers, we do have the idiot boxes around. We like to think of what we do (my wife and I) as unraveling the creative process deployed by the writers, directors, and actors, but we agree with you that if you were to watch TV on "another level," it could just substitute for quality time to exercise one's *own* imagination. But those TV programs *are* the product of imaginations (some better, some worse, some horrifically stultifying), so watching them *can* be an homage to the creator's own creativity (I recognize you're not "bashing" TV - that's not the point of what you wrote, I don't believe). Cards, board games? Certainly! Even trick dice and magic tricks are ways to get our little sprouts to think creatively. Yay!

on 12/11/2007 Right on! I'm all for quality family time instead of that idiot box!