the TV thread

[Guest guest]

I got rid of my television while pregnant with my first son, and he

never watched any at all until he was two, and then it was just veggie

tales videos. I am entirely against TV, theoretically, and it makes me

feel sick when I think about what it does to a child's mind to be

invaded with so much marketing and propaganda. On the flip side, I don't

think that i am as stimulated to fight what i think is wrong unless i am

reminded of it. Like this group, for instance, stimulates me to talk and

think and behave more conciously. On a different note, I suffer from

chronic bouts of deep depressions, which I can usually prevent with

diet, stability and taking good care of myself, but my last pregnancy

and the horrible ordeal of an underweight baby that medically could not

breastfeed, and then the withdrawal my body went through and the

hormones and weight gain. The sadness would not stop. A year later it

has just been really clear and good for about 12 weeks, I am getting a

handle on my migraines and my life again, and i can honestly say that if

i had not been able to watch the discovery channel, and TLC with all the

baby shows and maternity ward and home decorating, i would have been

living in the echoes of my own head. I was alone with my children for

about 55 hours a week, and after moving and just all the changes, being

overwhelmed in a disorganized home, sometimes the lonliness and noise in

my own head just needed to be sated with some shows about people my age

just living, and then I could turn it off and take the kids outside,

because there is a whole wonderful world out there you can't always see

through your window.

 

Love,

Natalie Joy & her boys