A TV in a child’s bedroom has proven to be a leading cause of smoking, pornography addiction, poor grades in school, and childhood obesity. Children with bedroom TV’s watch nearly 30 hours of television per week. The exposure to cable shows with sexual content, violence, language, and the celebrity pop culture are negatively impacting our children.
I highly encourage you to listen to the following radio program from Dr. Albert Mohler. You can select this link: http://www.albertmohler.com/radio_show.php?cdate=2008-03-14
The show is about 45 minutes long without commericals. Dr. Mohler is the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. He is a leading Christian theologian and cultral commentator. Dr. Mohler unpacks the bedroom TV debate and offers solid reasons to pull those TV’s out of the bedroom and leave them in a public place..
You can also read the original New York Times article by Tara Parker-Pope. Yet this is not from a Christian worldview: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/health/04well.html
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March 21, 2008 at 7:52 pm
This show was great. I can’t imagine sending a two year old down the street to the neighbor’s house by himself. How can we allow our adolescent to navigate the air waves alone? Pretty scary with all that’s on TV these days.
April 11, 2008 at 8:52 am
TV IN THE BEDROOM!!! My kids don’t even get to watch TV Monday - Thursday. There’s no way to they are getting one in the bedroom. I originally took the TV away for a week, because of the attitude and sassing that I was getting. They were hearing it on TV. Within the first week, it was hard, but I could tell a difference in them. By the end of the second week most of the smart replies were gone - and they actually acted like people. It was great. So I just continued, and I’ve been doing it this way for 5 years. Plus it made us conduct ourselves like parents, and not use the TV as a baby-sitter.
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