my take on T.V/DVDs/commputer games

Ok so you may be saying enough already!! And if you think i have already more than over done this subject, your more than free to tell me so. Just do it nicely though huh! lol!!

But actually i felt an didn't quite cover everything.
I just wanted to share my personal take or view on the above mentioned items. And why it is i so obviously don't care for them. Note this is my personal take only , just something for me and my house, that's it! Just sharing so you can see where I stand and why I do.

I grew up with no T.V, no movies , no video games. And I just want my kids to be free from all that as well. I want them to know there is more to life than that, that there is other fun things one can do! And of course work, live is not all about fun and games. It should be a good balance though.

Its not even that those things in them selves are bad, but just that they can consume way to much of ones times.

I want my kids to be creative, do crafts, write letters , work hard, play games, read books, read the Bible daily, learn a trade, learn useful things, learn to bake and cook, play a musical instrument, ect. ect. And if anything hinders that , then i don't like it!

So i may be an extremest when I say almost completely no to these items, but its because i see it way over done. And it makes me mad. So then i am like throw it out completely! There now its under control!! My favorite way of controlling things is not having them in the house!!

I am so happy that my husband felt the same on the T.V. So that's never been an issue for us. Though we did have one while we were living in a camper trailer waiting to have our house built, which had an antenna on it( so it got 3 stations). It was about a year we had it. It went when we sold the trailer, and i was so happy to see it go.

But movies via DVDs has been another thing with us. It has took some time for him to be on the band wagon with me on it. And i can not say he truly shares my convictions yet. But since he can see how much it means to me that my kids do better things than sit and watch to much, or spend to much time playing computer games, then he does support that.

Until we got to the point that movies were allowed only once a week, then to every other week as of just late, they were way over done. And it annoyed me to know end. There was hardly no time for reading, no time for games, no time with just sitting around visiting , begging and nagging can i watch , and sometimes complaining about doing chores because they didn't want to miss something : all because of the movies. GRRR with a capital G!!

Computer games were the next issue to conquer. Hubby allowed them, and several times a day. I could not stand them at all! Now its down to very little a day. YES!!!

That's why i stand the way i do. Of course I feel there is times for down time, times when no work needs to be done, times when absolutely nothing needs to be done . But i still feel my kids and mommy and daddy too, has better things to do.
Pual in the Bible did better things! Laura and Mary did better things!!! And we can too!!