Advertising diatribe

[LadySkybyrd]

At 07:19 PM 5/14/99 -0400, SusanB14@aol.com wrote:
>	I have not had a TV since I graduated from college in 1961.  My 
>children grew up without a TV in the house and my grandchildren are also 
>TV-less and loving it.  My grandchildren read, the two older ones (11 & 12) 
>at a college level, or what passes for college these days.  My 7 year old 
>grandson is teaching himself to read at his own pace, speaks several 
>languages and has an excellent imagination.  The other two are too young to 
>judge yet.  Josh, the 7 year old, has been helping teach English to a group 
>of Romanians in Romania.
>	I think TV is a plug-in-drug, suitable for people who don't or can't 
>do anything more active.  I read constantly, work out, and generally have a 
>good life without TV.  I do not have religious objections to TV, just would 
>rather do other things.
>

I was a college level reader at age 11 also, I also can take apart a
computer and put back together in working order, can explain physics to
someone who has no math, got straight a's in math in high school, never got
less than a B in college level physics.

and I watch tv.

Go figure.

Cara
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