I like your tv, originally uploaded by bobsee.
Some people think TV is a bad thing. They ban it in their homes. I knew some families who had this approach and one day their kids didn’t appear back home from school at the usual time. When they set out to search for them they found them all standing outside a TV rentals shop watching programmes through the window!
This little boy reminded me of that.
I think it’s a good idea to teach your children how to handle the technologies that pervade their lives.
Heroes Not Zombies 
I love the idea of your last sentence, but OH I have a hard time teaching myself to deal with those pervasive technologies! So I conclude that it’s not parents keeping them from their children but from themselves, because they know they themselves cannot handle it…. (((((HUGS))))) sandi
I so agree Sandi.
If we don’t know how to handle modern technologies how can we hope to help our children?