So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If the parents are too busy to read, it's a safe bet the children will feel the same way. Set aside time for family reading each night. It doesn't matter so much what the kids read, as long as you provide them space for reading and a sense that it is a valuable part of your daily routine.
I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.
There are so many things calling you toward that computer or TV. You forget, we're a family. We're all supposed to spend time together and talk.
Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.
Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
Television and I grew up together.
I think, with TV, you create kind of a family to work with.