Oh the tragic irony of this! My husband, the first in his family to get diabetes, is zonked out in front of the TV, which he keeps on constantly. I sit fifteen feet away from the tube with ear plugs at my controlled-radiation Mac. Poor guy got in the habit of watching TV when he was still able to work as a designer. (BTW, the others in his family got diabetes or other metabolic problems when cell phone service spread to their area.) The effects are insidious. The cause of so many of our problems is so right in front of our faces that we can't see it. Explanations abound for the explosive increase in allergies in Japan in recent years. A big increase was noted to start from the generation growing up in the 1960s, and it was postulated that excessive cleanliness was to blame, due to paving of streets. However, when I asked several classes of older students what the biggest changes were that occurred in the 60s, in each case they mentioned the TV. Everyone would gather in the home of anyone who had one and spend hours watching it. I developed a horrendous allergy to cedar pollen when I lived in a second-story apartment with power lines outside. My old passport photo looks like I was crying. Today we have "extremely high levels" of cedar pollen, according to my husband's TV, and he's sneezing, but guess what, folks--I'm not! For the first time in my life I am grateful for my allergies, because they alert me to when and where I'm getting irradiated. It is more ubiquitous than you think! And it has been for years. (If I'm stuck with the irradation, EFT makes it bearable.)

It's not just kids that are getting brainwashed by these devices.  Just walk down any street in the US in the evening or early morning.  You'll see the glow of televisions in many homes.  The messages- it's a nasty, dangerous world full of crime, war and sickness.  The solutions are to buy lots of stuff, take lots of drugs, and to support society's aggressive efforts to combat criminals and terrorists here and abroad. 

Not to mention, the television is an extremely powerful socialization tool, telling you how to think and perceive on a daily basis! You are literally being programmed, which amounts to a great deal of psychological damage. You could also add that the electromagnetic radiation projected from the TV offsets your bodies own vibratory frequency, consequently creating electromagnetic chaos.

After years of having satellite, it became difficult to turn the TV off, especially in the winter when it's -5 degrees F.  When we got rid of the satellite connection, we had bought a few DVDs.  At first, the kids would watch all the time, but after seeing the videos around 100 times or so, they got bored of it and started to do things on their own.

I think back to my childhood memories of playing dress-up, planting flowers, backyard ball games, riding bikes, roller skating, building treehouses, catching crayfish in a local creek, watching cloud bunnies hop across the sky, and finding the most beautiful bouquet of weeds for my mom. I wonder what will be the memories of children who watch TV all day? 

One option to help "wean" the kids whose bedroom TV needs to be  removed is to replace it with a radio or CD player and introduce them to some good music. My son loves- of all things- Japanese Flutes.
They sound like "whale song" to me. But as a tweenager, I think he made a good, relaxing choice!