Creating time for the whatever new behaviours you may have planned
Posted on 31 December 2006
New Year is usually a time when individuals think about making resolutions. The thing is about adopting new behaviours is that they take time. Whether your ambition is to prepare healthier meals, take more exercise, adopt yoga, spend more time meditating or with your kids, space has to be created to accommodate that. I do think it
Published December 31, 2006 . Filed under: Sleep
I am very much enjoying your blog, was referred by Regina.
But I wanted to say I noticed a lot of my time is getting spent on TV too. There was a time in my life where I cancelled my subscription to Cable and went free of TV for quite a long while. One co-worker said I was his hero and he thought it was amazing I went without TV. But with the invention of Digital Video Recording (aka Tivo) I watch a lot of TV now.
Your posting here has gotten me to thinking I could potentially rediscover other leisure time activities that the TV has usurped. I had forgotten about my time being unplugged from the Cable.
Happy New Year!
December 31, 2006 @ 2:45 am
The best child-rearing decision we ever made was to not have television. We both grew up without it, and cable was very expensive in our area, so not having tv was not much of a hardship. Also, most of the children’s friends did not have tvs at home.
All four grew up to be involved in sports, music, voracious readers, and most importantly, real thinkers. They learned table manners and how to carry on a conversation. The most important benefit they received from a “deprived” environment was how to resolve a difference of opinion, basing their arguments on logic, reasoning, fact and opinion as appropriate.
Too many people these days have lost the ability to evaluate the merit of a new idea and fewer still take the time to try to decide where the truth lies. Our youth are losing the ability to question authority.
Don’t let me give you the wrong impression. They had lots and lots of computer time from a very early age.
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December 19, 2008 @ 6:08 am
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June 2, 2009 @ 2:54 pm
Thank you for this! Whilst I don’t have the option of unplugging the TV ariel (hubby wouldn’t lke it), it has given me an related idea. Instead of moaning and huffing when he is watching sport on TV, I can see it as an opportunity for time to do something useful or beneficial for myself or someone else. Great idea Dr B.
December 28, 2009 @ 12:55 pm