by Janis Williamson - 2/18/2014 - Used by permission
(Note from Lois: Janis is a dear friend of mine from childhood, and getting to know her even more in recent years has been very sweet! Her mother used to be my Sunday school teacher and my mother used to be hers!
By
purposeful thought, we have one TV in our home. It is upstairs in the
bonus room. My kitchen is quiet, peaceful, with a large farm table as
its centerpiece.
My
grandson, Ocean has been with me for several days, and during that time
the TV has only been in use for two hours. He has spent the remaining
hours, at the farm table building trucks, cars, and airplanes, and
reading books to me while I cook his favorite food. The bonus room is a
giant Knight’s Kingdom with medieval battles being fought, surrounded
by more books piled high that take us into adventures far greater than
the zombie-staring boredoms of an electronically talking box.
Dear
Parents, you do NOT have to be so busy! Control your television. You
can do it. Do NOT let it control you! Neither allow it to be the
babysitter that will demand far more pay in future consequences than you
will ever want to realize.
Your
children are little people who have eternal souls to be nurtured for
God and heaven. For heaven’s sake, as Frederick Douglass wisely said so
many many years ago, “It is easier to build strong children than to
repair broken men.”
You
want your kids to grow up and be your friends, right? You want them to
have a heart for God, right? I do hope so! Well then, TURN OFF THE
TV, and find the joy in the little people, the eternal treasures, gifted
to you by God, your precious children.
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