“You won’t last one week!”
I heard that remark – and variations on it – from everyone I told about my new resolution. My husband and I just had our first child, and I decided (informing my husband, who agreed – cautiously – to back me) that we’d build our new family without television being a part of our lives.
I’m not sure exactly what made me so anti-TV once I became a mother. I was raised with a steady diet of television programs, starting with Sesame Street and continuing on to every popular show in the ‘80s and ‘90s. I’d tapered down my TV viewing as an adult – who had the time? – but I was still an avid TV watcher when I decided to experiment with quitting.
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Keywords: Contemplation, Introspection, Listening, Life, Wasting time, Waste of time, Reflection, Meditation, Solitude, Loneliness, TV, Television, Watching television, Watching TV, Conformed to this world, Worldliness, Worldly, Raising children, Children, Family, Raising a family, distractions, technology
Bible reference(s): Genesis 24:63, Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1:2 , Psalm 77:12, Psalm 119:15, Psalm 143:5, Proverbs 22:6, Matthew 14:23, Mark 1:5, Mark 6:46, Luke 5:16, Luke 6:12, John 6:15, Romans 12:2, Ephesians 2:2, Ephesians 4:17-20, James 1:27, James 4:4, 1 John 2:15-16, 1 John 4:5
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