On Tuesday 08 March 2005 14:01, Shawn Willden wrote: > Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > >How about teaching the kids some responsibility to your television, > >the > >environment and their future and turn the thing off when they are > >done > >with it? > > > > > > I responded privately to this in some detail. Publicly I'll just say > that while this suggestion is good in theory, and certainly something > we > attempt to do, anyone who has raised a few children understands that > teaching them responsibility is a long, arduous process, and that > they'll fail at it innumerable times along the way. > > I prefer not to have my new TV a casualty of their failures, so > anything > I can do to provide an automated safety net with minimal effort is > worthwhile. There are plenty of other contexts for teaching > responsibility.
Well, I've taught my 3-year-old to turn off the TV... now if only I could get my wife to follow suit... -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
