I am waiting for my youngest child to leave HS in three years...

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: coldmeat

Originally posted by: Imp
Not sure if I'm proof or counter-proof, so here are the facts. I spend every minute of my free time, when I'm not outside, infront of the TV, even if I'm at my computer. I did over 90% of all my school work and studying from grade school to college infront of the TV. Somehow I managed to graduate with a civil engineering degree being ranked #10 out of 60-ish in my last semester at one of the best schools in my country (ranked in top 5, usually #3 or higher).

I'm sure having no TV helped by not having a possible distraction in the house. But what happens when you ship him out to college? Pull away the chains, suddenly he has the freedom to do anything he wants. I hope he has enough discipline in himself to do it.

What school? Just curious.

Ryerson. Best damn school ever.


Ok, no. The real one is the big one, ranked up there, not sure if it's top 5 for my old faculty though. It wasn't exactly that hard to get into, but it isn't trash. I think Waterloo would have been harder. Rankings are full of shit anyways.

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: BlackTigers
So he's applying for an ivy league school because you don't have a TV?

....

I can almost guarantee to you that it's a factor. Not quite as much a factor as having parents who obviously are involved and invested in their child's welfare and education, but still a factor.

Really? You can almost guarantee that it's a factor?

Link to studies that say the lack of watching TV helps you get into better schools, or something along those lines. Why not use the parental controls that all cable boxes have to you know, control what and when your kids can watch?

Those studies have been done, and they find that TV watching is inversely correlated with academic success.

 

[coldmeat]

Originally posted by: Imp

Originally posted by: coldmeat

Originally posted by: Imp
Not sure if I'm proof or counter-proof, so here are the facts. I spend every minute of my free time, when I'm not outside, infront of the TV, even if I'm at my computer. I did over 90% of all my school work and studying from grade school to college infront of the TV. Somehow I managed to graduate with a civil engineering degree being ranked #10 out of 60-ish in my last semester at one of the best schools in my country (ranked in top 5, usually #3 or higher).

I'm sure having no TV helped by not having a possible distraction in the house. But what happens when you ship him out to college? Pull away the chains, suddenly he has the freedom to do anything he wants. I hope he has enough discipline in himself to do it.

What school? Just curious.

Ryerson. Best damn school ever.


Ok, no. The real one is the big one, ranked up there, not sure if it's top 5 for my old faculty though. It wasn't exactly that hard to get into, but it isn't trash. I think Waterloo would have been harder. Rankings are full of shit anyways.

I'm going to Guelph right now. I like it. Never been to Ryerson but heard good things about it.

 

[rbV5]

That big screen TV is going to cost you an easy $35,500 in retirement income down the road....better wait

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus

Everybody says GWB is an idiot, well he applied AND WENT TO Yale and Harvard.

He was rich and from a dynasty of aristocrats.



My dad never got us a TV anyway either. He said it was a waste of time and money, and that we could do much better if we relied on our imagination and read books.

I think he was right, considering alot of my friends watched a lot of TV, and are basically retarded.

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
your kid will get into Ivy league, then achieve a 1.0 GPA the first semester because they have 18 years of TV to catch up on

That sounds like perfect logic to me. Sounds like someone is trying to hard to justify themselves.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: K1052
lol...obviously the evil tv was the difference, not good parenting

Choosing to cut back on TV might be a symptom of good parenting and not necessarily the only factor. Somehow I think if they were willing to not have cable to help out their kids they probably were willing to do other things too.

 

[JohnCU]

+1 for the i spent all my childhood in front of a tv and still got a BS in EE and have been succesful.

 

[ribbon13]

Parents that care. The factor that outweighs all others.

It's relatively easy to compromise this: Prerequisites for TV and/or video game time are all homework finished and adherence to physical activity regimen.

TV and DVD player + no cable is another simple solution. Preselected veiwing, lots of history channel stuff you can buy.

 

[Throckmorton]

ATOT is so skeptical of commonsense things. He's right to make TV inaccessible. It's proven that TV and video games reduce attention spans. Just because many of us are successful doesn't mean TV has no effect.

Or maybe it's not skepticism, but defensiveness. It's like those circumcision threads, where everyone with a cut foreskin says "I'm circumcized and I'm not missing a thing!"

http://www.usatoday.com/news/n...5-tv-bottomstrip_x.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12586
http://pediatrics.aappublicati...ent/abstract/113/4/708

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
ATOT is so skeptical of commonsense things. He's right to make TV inaccessible. It's proven that TV and video games reduce attention spans. Just because many of us are successful doesn't mean TV has no effect.

Or maybe it's not skepticism, but defensiveness. It's like those circumcision threads, where everyone with a cut foreskin says "I'm circumcized and I'm not missing a thing!"

http://www.usatoday.com/news/n...5-tv-bottomstrip_x.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12586
http://pediatrics.aappublicati...ent/abstract/113/4/708

Or when uncircumcised people claim its easier to keep clean. :roll:

Why did you have to bring these threads back, and such a randomass topic too.