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I'm really curious. You ladies are such an inspiration in so many ways. I'm wondering how you regulate tv use with your dc...and do you use the tv in the hsing?
MR
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mumsrea wrote:
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Yes. We are big fans of educational videos, etc.
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Not enough  . We don't watch a lot of "regular tv" - but we do love movies, and there are a few channels we watch a lot of (Food network is a favorite - Good Eats & Unwrapped).
Here in Vegas, to get any channels you need to get cable, which was an expense we weren't counting on. BUT! We do get EWTN now, which I like, and we have a few channels we are watching too much of right now, like History International, National Geographic, and The Science Channel.
We are going really easy this summer school-wise - much more so than we usually do in the summer - due to the move, all the adjustments, and big sister leaving in August for college. When we get back to school consistently (in August), I will have more "regulations" in place. Right now, I am being pretty lax (but if their attitudes start to show it, I have no trouble instantly tightening the reins.  )
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mumsrea wrote:
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After I posted - I realized I meant to say -
besides just "educational videos" about a particular subject, also Math-U-See videos, and Muzzy tapes, and Latina Christiana DVD's, etc.
there. I think that was all I meant to say 
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I don't allow much tv at all during the school year. I've noticed that if I allow too much tv or computer time the children fight more. I don't know what the connection is, but it is a guarantee if too much monitor time occurs.
Let's see...
Absolutely NO TV before school. Occasionally, my children enjoy watching a 30 minute old western in the afternoon, "The Gene Autry Show" (if you're not familiar think Roy Rogers - they're old western mostly done in the 30's and 40's.)
I confess we too love the Food Network, and we're always watching "Good Eats." I tell myself it's food science as a way of validating. 
And, of course the family loves a good family movie from the DVD collection.
As far as tv for school - yes, sometimes. Like a nature show, or something neat on the History channel.
My kids are pretty sensitive to anything even remotely scary. We can't even watch Toy Story where the disturbed boy disassembles old toys and launches them on rockets. So I am VERY picky about what they watch.
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I'm a HUUUUGE documentary nut, so I can definitely see utilizing those.
We don't have satellite, so we use netflix.
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WE ARE PRETTY LIMITED- NO CABLE JUST A PAIR OF BEAT UP RABBIT EARS (WE WILL BE IN TROUBLE COME 2009!)
WE HAVE SIGNING SATURDAYS - WE SIGN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND READ ASL BOOKS AND THE 2 OLDER DC GET TO PICK ONE SIGNING TIME OR OTHER SIGNING VIDEO.
ON SUNDAY THEY GET ONE PICK OF A "CHURCH" MOVIE IF MASS ATTENDENCE WENT WELL- THE BIG FAV'S ARE CCC SAINT FILMS AND FREINDS AND HERO DVD'S
ABOUT ONCE A MONTH WE HAVE A FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT WITH DADDY- DD USUALLY PICKS rICK sTEVES.(TRAVEL)
DS LIKES hENERY'S AMAZING ANIMALS(KIDS ANIMAL DOCUMENTRY)
BOY WE ARE NERDY
WE ALSO LIKE SONLIGHT'S- DISCOVER AND DO AND MATHTACULAR DVD'S FOR A RAINY DAY CHANGE OF PACE.
Maggie (who likes pbs austen films best )
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Well, we're even more nerdy, because we don't have a tv at all. We do have a computer, and we watch DVDs on it from time to time, usually as a treat -- I don't tend to use them in schooling, though I wouldn't rule that out entirely. I'd like to use some Teaching Company DVDs at some point with my high-schooler.
Anyway, we don't have tv rules, because we don't have a tv. This isn't a moral high ground -- I just know from experience that if we did have one, I would let the kids push my line in the sand back, and back, and back . . . but you can't fight about what you don't have! I also happen to think that enforced boredom with no easy out (for me!) encourages more reading, art, playing together, etc. If we had a tv, and I was sick of hearing the kids bicker or beg me for something to do, I know I would turn it on in a heartbeat, because I have no willpower. This way that doesn't happen, and they have to find other things to do, because otherwise I'll banish them to the yard.
We did have tv when my olders were little. The only reason we stopped having it was that we moved to England and discovered that we'd have to pay a yearly fee for a license. Didn't seem worth it, and we haven't missed it.
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We have a tv but no cable, so really the TV is only good for watching tapes or DVDs. I try to limit viewing to one 30 minute video a day, usually after lunch so that I can clean up the kitchen and eat my own lunch in peace (I read to the kids while they eat).
When the kids are sick and/or times are desperate (like when I have a bunch of insurance phone calls to make and need to focus and not be interrupted), I will let them watch more. They like nature shows like Geokids and other kid-documentaries from the library. But they also like Bob the Builder.
I can tell if they have been watching too much- they are more restless and bored and tend to bicker more, as if they can't remember how to entertain themselves. The summers are long and hot here, causing us to be trapped inside most afternoons, so I do let them watch their one show a day.
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Oh, wow! I'm in awe of those of you who don't have television or don't use it. It seems like that is the only time it's quiet and no one is fighting or destroying the house.
Although, maybe the fighting is because of the tv.....hmmm.....
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My kids do watch television at friends' houses, and at both grandmothers' -- and I can tell when that's what they've been doing, especially my boys. My 5yo comes home an overstimulated maniac.
It would have been a lot harder to wean ourselves from television without the distraction of a transatlantic move -- everything was novel and foreign at first, and no tv just seemed like part of that package and gradually became normal like everything else.
I have been doing lots of reading lately, for book-review purposes, on the effects of "screen time" -- also including computers (so I am busted!) -- on children's attention spans, motivation levels, and overall literacy. The magazine I write for has got me pegged for these parenting/education issues, so they send me LOTS of this kind of thing. Currently I'm reading The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein, an English professor from Emory, exploring the reasons why all the claims of the new technological era -- that all the educational opportunities available through electronic media like the internet and television will lead to a smarter, better-educated America -- are not playing out in reality. I haven't finished the book yet, but I have finished the chapter on screen time, and my professor husband can attest to the fact that too many college students, despite all their access to information, don't know anything and can't read in any kind of active way -- they sit back and wait to be entertained. Not a promising scenario for their futures as students, or even as adults. A world of people just waiting to watch something . . .
I'm reading the book, and others like it (Leonard Sax's Boys Adrift, on the "Failure to Launch" syndrome, is also pretty indicting on the subjects of video games and tv) with a critical eye, but I think it's a plausible argument that video learning (or recreation) in heavy doses doesn't prepare children for the kind of active intellectual life their college professors are going to wish they were prepared to have. On a day-to-day level with younger children, I can see that the less tv they have, the better my kids are -- the 14yo, the 10yo, the 5yo and the 4yo -- at finding ways to occupy themselves with books, games, art and the world outside. It's when they've been at someone else's house (chiefly a grandmother's) and come home tired and overwired that the real whining and use of the b-word (I forbid them, normally, to say "bored" or "boring," because I am the queen and the b-word offends my delicate royal ears) becomes a problem.
I mean, I'm no purist, because here I sit at the computer instead of finishing that book about how technology is making us all dumber . . . and at times it is very nice to be able to pop in a DVD (though people have to sit in the desk chair, or on stools to watch it, so it's never all that comfortable). But I am trying very deliberately to keep this kind of thing (even my own recreational computer time . . . big weak spot) to an absolute minimum, and not to let them be just a way of life in my house. It's a struggle, but one I believe is worth the effort.
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We have no TV, but we do have a set and a dvd player, upstairs in the bedroom where dh sleeps. We watch very little - well dh and I watch more - but the children see maybe an hour of dvds a month, if that. And then usually something factual, nature etc. That said, when we came back from holidays, the first thing DS told everyone was "they had Cbeebies to watch" Normally though, without a widescreen tv at eye level, he doesn't ask for dvds. They never watch alone - once when DS was ill, I left him to doze off with Alice in Wonderland on. I prefer to be there and "decipher" or defuse things for our anxious child.
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We don't have cable, so my children hardly ever watch programs on T.V. (except for the occassional baseball game).
In terms of movies, my children might watch 2-3 a month. Sometimes I might pick up educational programs from the library, and we'll watch those.
Starting next year I'm planning on doing Latina Christiana with the DVD's, so we'll see how that goes.
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