Yesterday morning, I decided to treat myself with a Starbucks. I was sort of shocked when I read "The Way I See It #51" on my cup which stated:
"Americans spend an average of 29 hours a week watching television - which means in a typical life span we devote 13 uninterrupted YEARS to our TV sets! The biggest problem with mass media isn't low quality - it's high quantity. Cutting down just an hour a day would provide extra years of life - for music and family, exercise and reading, conversation and coffee."
That's over FOUR hours PER DAY!! Do people actually watch TV that much-on average?
And if they actually do, how ON EARTH do they find the time??
After work, errands, dinner, kid homework, kid activities, kid night time rituals, and housework, how the hhhheeeeeeeeeckkkkk would anyone have time to watch more than an hour of TV per day? Maybe they stay up all night? I don't know, I just don't get it.
Now, I wouldn't call myself a TV hater, I do enjoy TV and good TV shows, but I can't imagine spending THIRTEEN years of my life watching TV programs. In fact, I am so far behind with my favorite show Grey's Anatomy that I am at risk of not catching up at all! And I got so LOST by not being able to watch Lost on a consistent basis that I had to throw in the towel (I do hope to rent the show season by season and have an all weekend Lost marathon in the future, however.) :)
I do realize that I am a bit of an exception because I am a single mom and there is a whole heck of a lot of work to do all the time, so I guess I can see how a single person with no kids could spend all their free time watching TV (how not fun), but this 4 hours a day thing is ON AVERAGE, and most households I know of have children in them which means TOO BUSY for TV. Or maybe it's just the kiddos who watch TV all the time so our average is way up. Or maybe I'm just not an effective manager of my time.
In any case, I think we are wasting our lives away people. Just turn it off! ...Unless it's something interesting like Jon and Kate Plus 8 or Ghost Adventures! hehe - Just kidding!
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2 comments:
You are SO right!! I know that Emma has TV time in the morning with breakfast and a little after bath, but 4 hours?? who and when and how??
You are so right, there just arent enough hours in the day to sit and watch TV that long! I am lucky to watch the movies I rent.
I will say living in a state that has a true winter makes it harder to do things outside, but even if I am stuck inside, I dont want to spend it watching TV.
And now I am craving Starbucks......wonder why they didnt include the little fact about how much money we spend at Starbucks on fancy coffee??! LOL
I think many people use TV as a mind-number or a babysitter...it is sad....
To be alive in the 50's...when families ate together and devoted time to one another...everyone is so self-absorbed- it is a sad world we are living in...
Americans on the whole are the laziest, most spoiled group of people on the planet...
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