TV Makes Girls Feel Like Crap About Themselves, But Does Wonders for White Boys

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43. We're teevee-free and its simple really. Just don't have any teevee.

I didn't start out like this mind you. When my oldest daughter was barely a toddler I desperately tried to get her hooked on teevee so I could take a bit of a break while she vegged in front of the boob-tube. Since I never watched, I hadn't paid any attention about the teevee situation until that moment.

Then I learned. I'm rural and we got 2 channels clearly: the local channel (Cubs, White Sox, Bears, Bulls games and local news) and PBS. That was it. Sometimes if I stood with the antennae high up by the window I might get Fox but it was always fuzzy and with bad sound quality.

We were too broke to afford a dish. No way was there any cable. So I was stuck with my crappy two channels and a toddler.

Oh, I raged and hunted for solutions and tried whatever I could - I really, really WAS that shallow and wanted my kids to get hooked so I had some free time!! But then when it becomes obvious that its impossible, you begin to cope and voila! becoming teevee free becomes much easier. You go to the library/park/kids museums/free concerts and movies in the park etc. etc and suddenly its just not a part of your life.

My kids are now 24 and 15 years old, they've never had teevee and they don't miss it at all. Neither do I. We're all big readers and that totally fills any time gaps in the day. We could afford a dish now (still no cable down our rural street) but there's no way we'll ever do it.