Getting a TV

Post contributed by Toni Jensen

For the longest time I resisted getting a TV at home because I didn’t want the kids to get too addicted to the thing. I had heard horror stories about children never getting off the couch and not being able to carry on conversations because they spent hours a day in front of the screen but I finally decided I couldn’t shield them from technology forever so I got us a http://www.cannonsatellite.com/direct-tv-movies.html package and talked to them about what they were allowed and not allowed to watch. It’s actually been a pretty easy transition and I think because my kids haven’t really had a TV they’re not all that interested in it. My daughter really likes MTV but that’s because she’s 15 but she only watches an hour or so a day before she’s bored with it and goes outside. My son is really active in sports and always has been so all he really watches is games which is totally fine with me – that’s like not even watching TV at all practically!