tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487026496034962987.post5494491073498454728..comments2023-10-01T06:11:51.500-07:00Comments on Now & Then, Here & Now, This & That: TV TokensKathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06922338969285483292noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487026496034962987.post-63473151269363593342012-10-10T06:13:06.684-07:002012-10-10T06:13:06.684-07:00Thanks, Heather! Now that our Grace is older, it w...Thanks, Heather! Now that our Grace is older, it would probably be smart to revisit this and make electronic tokens instead as we have the same issues with video games. <br /><br />I should make an adult version for myself to limit iphone time... but that's where I keep all my books now!Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06922338969285483292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487026496034962987.post-70979889860715576002012-10-09T21:28:56.435-07:002012-10-09T21:28:56.435-07:00Love the idea. I just did my own version before I ...Love the idea. I just did my own version before I found this blog. I looked for other people with similar ideas before I started (but obviously not hard enough). My son's big issue isn't so much TV, but video games. So we have generalized 'electronic tokens'. To Crys: we also have gotten rid of cable TV and only watch movies now and again. This token idea is brilliant for a myriad of things though. Love it! -I realize this is one of your older blogs, but it's new to me!! :) Thanks!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05906347642699515797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487026496034962987.post-18499916926714070092010-01-29T11:28:50.269-08:002010-01-29T11:28:50.269-08:00Crys -honestly, it scares me. What will *I* do, ca...Crys -honestly, it scares me. What will *I* do, can I watch my shows (see, they are not just 'the shows I lie' they are 'MY shows') and I don't know that I want to give them up. But I'm thinking about it! <br /><br />Love the poem, you knew I would! Reminds me of Shel Silverstein.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06922338969285483292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487026496034962987.post-2980614346387470062010-01-26T19:39:13.744-08:002010-01-26T19:39:13.744-08:00by roald dahl
The most important thing we'...by roald dahl<br /> The most important thing we've learned,<br />So far as children are concerned,<br />Is never, NEVER, NEVER let<br />Them near your television set --<br />Or better still, just don't install<br />The idiotic thing at all.<br />In almost every house we've been,<br />We've watched them gaping at the screen.<br />They loll and slop and lounge about,<br />And stare until their eyes pop out.<br />(Last week in someone's place we saw<br />A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)<br />They sit and stare and stare and sit<br />Until they're hypnotised by it,<br />Until they're absolutely drunk<br />With all that shocking ghastly junk.<br />Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,<br />They don't climb out the window sill,<br />They never fight or kick or punch,<br />They leave you free to cook the lunch<br />And wash the dishes in the sink --<br />But did you ever stop to think,<br />To wonder just exactly what<br />This does to your beloved tot?<br />IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!<br />IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!<br />IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!<br />IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND<br />HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND<br />A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!<br />HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!<br />HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!<br />HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!<br />'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,<br />'But if we take the set away,<br />What shall we do to entertain<br />Our darling children? Please explain!'<br />We'll answer this by asking you,<br />'What used the darling ones to do?<br />'How used they keep themselves contented<br />Before this monster was invented?'<br />Have you forgotten? Don't you know?<br />We'll say it very loud and slow:<br />THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,<br />AND READ and READ, and then proceed<br />To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!<br />One half their lives was reading books!<br />The nursery shelves held books galore!<br />Books cluttered up the nursery floor!<br />And in the bedroom, by the bed,<br />More books were waiting to be read!<br />Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales<br />Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales<br />And treasure isles, and distant shores<br />Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,<br />And pirates wearing purple pants,<br />And sailing ships and elephants,<br />And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,<br />Stirring away at something hot.<br />(It smells so good, what can it be?<br />Good gracious, it's Penelope.)<br />The younger ones had Beatrix Potter<br />With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,<br />And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,<br />And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and-<br />Just How The Camel Got His Hump,<br />And How the Monkey Lost His Rump,<br />And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,<br />There's Mr. Rate and Mr. Mole-<br />Oh, books, what books they used to know,<br />Those children living long ago!<br />So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,<br />Go throw your TV set away,<br />And in its place you can install<br />A lovely bookshelf on the wall.<br />Then fill the shelves with lots of books,<br />Ignoring all the dirty looks,<br />The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,<br />And children hitting you with sticks-<br />Fear not, because we promise you<br />That, in about a week or two<br />Of having nothing else to do,<br />They'll now begin to feel the need<br />Of having something to read.<br />And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy!<br />You watch the slowly growing joy<br />That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen<br />They'll wonder what they'd ever seen<br />In that ridiculous machine,<br />That nauseating, foul, unclean,<br />Repulsive television screen!<br />And later, each and every kid<br />Will love you more for what you did.cryshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04282886522314847486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487026496034962987.post-40024319400275253282010-01-26T19:37:07.905-08:002010-01-26T19:37:07.905-08:00i like your pretty tv buttons but how bout going t...i like your pretty tv buttons but how bout going totally tv free--like the whole family doing it for awhile. we did it every year for a week and it's wonderful and now we have no tv at all--we have one but it's just hooked to the wii and occasionally for movies that's it. the kids read more and we hang out more.cryshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04282886522314847486noreply@blogger.com