Be careful, if you cut out TV, to not replace it with too much Internet. I have met several trads over the years who brag about their lack of television but then spend an inordinate amount of time online.

In my opinion, carefully selected television viewing is far less damaging to a family than no TV but with family members all privately engaged in their own online pursuits.

Over the past few years I've come to realize how bad TV can be, with the senseless comedy, immodesty, Christian-bashing, mind-numbing shows and commercials, etc. I realized this when I went off to college and for the first time was without regular access to a television, and this started before I turned toward traditionalism. This may sound dumb, but my question for all you TV-abstainers is what you do with your spare time? Like I said, I'm in college now, and I'm so busy and don't own a TV, so it's easy. But what about later on, and when you have a family? I understand that one can devote more time to charitable works, prayer, Scripture study, spiritual reading, etc. But what do y'all do, such as in the evenings, either by yourselves, with your spouse, and/or with your children?

Alongside with reading, the children could go outside and play. They could discover something new like their imagination. :dancing-banana: :light-saber: :thinking: :thinking: :kick-can: :kick-can: :nunchaku: :reading: :reading: :dancing: :tinfoil: :guitar: :guitar: :rahrah: :rahrah: :farmer: :farmer: :dwarf: :chef: :chef: :cool: :idea: :idea: :pop:

What did people used to do before TV?

Some very good and helpful tips on here.

I'm getting to the point where I very rarely view the boobtube even for the essentials like important local news, weather and other information or even some good old movies with a sound moral message. But the kicker for me is not only that most of it on there is absolute garbage and disinformation but on top of that they have the nerve to beat you over the head with commercials and I mean ridiculously stupid ones. I can remember when you only had a few commercials evry once in a while, now it's at least thirty percent of broadcast time and getting longer. Television for me has become nothing more than one stupid advertisement after another to the point where I can't even turn the stupid thing on anymore.

It's funny that it's the sponsors, the very thing that supports the idiot box is the very thing that chased me away, with a lot of others hopefully. how's that for irony?

Oh and one more thing, before the advent of television most people had big families so all you married people have another thing to do without TV.  :wink:

Over the past few years I've come to realize how bad TV can be, with the senseless comedy, immodesty, Christian-bashing, mind-numbing shows and commercials, etc. I realized this when I went off to college and for the first time was without regular access to a television, and this started before I turned toward traditionalism. This may sound dumb, but my question for all you TV-abstainers is what you do with your spare time? Like I said, I'm in college now, and I'm so busy and don't own a TV, so it's easy. But what about later on, and when you have a family? I understand that one can devote more time to charitable works, prayer, Scripture study, spiritual reading, etc. But what do y'all do, such as in the evenings, either by yourselves, with your spouse, and/or with your children?

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We abandoned TV watching after reading Airwaves from Hell by a priest whose name I cannot remember, but it was at least 20 years ago.  We read aloud and played games when the kids were little but also had some select VHS (back then - now DVDs) to watch too.  We'd take the kids for walks after dinner or ride bikes and invested in GAZILLIONS of Legos  :roll-laugh2:  Which are now being used by the next generation.

That would be Fr. Frank Poncelet of the Apostolate of Our Lady for No TV. He also wrote a sequel.

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