Hi!
Today I received a lot of goodies that were early Christmas gifts, and they helped me feel so loved. It reminded me of the five love languages Gary Chapman details in his book about love languages. They are the language of gifts, healthy touch, acts of service, quality time-listening or doing something fun, and affirming words/praise/compliments.
He asserts everyone has a love language that means the most to them. I like them all, and the gifts are wonderful.
Well, I wanted to share. Merry early Christmas!
Alanda
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Why we should clean up tv and not watch so much
Hi,
Long time no blog. Life sure is full when you have responsibilities and friends. In any case, I'll get back to some evidence of why the television shows should have higher ethics and standards especially for children and note why we should forgo the television more often than we do. Much of this evidence is at http://www.labouroflove.org/tv-toys-&-technology/television/research-on-the-effects-of-television/ . Why reinvent the wheel?
Also, when I was in college, I wrote a paper for linguistics. The paper, "The Effects of Media on Language Acquisition," shows that children who watch a lot of television have their visual part of the brain stimulated, but because they were not verbally interacting with the television, their language/verbal part of the brain did not get exercised and their vocabulary and communication skills decreased.
Another interesting fact is that for social dilemmas, another college class I took, my classmate wrote a paper to determine whether or not violence on television effected children's behavior. Studies show that it does. When writing about how to solve this problem, she suggested that concerned viewers write letters and noted that television executives said one letter was like one or ten thousand opinions to them because for every one person who wrote, one or ten thousand people thought it.
Do you want another reason to forgo TV? It has to do with money. A Yahoo article a while ago said if people stopped paying for cable and used the time working a second job, in a certain amount of years they would have saved enough money from electric and cable bills and earned enough from their other job to be a millionaire.
Well, let's do some good stuff and be well! Be blessed readers!
Long time no blog. Life sure is full when you have responsibilities and friends. In any case, I'll get back to some evidence of why the television shows should have higher ethics and standards especially for children and note why we should forgo the television more often than we do. Much of this evidence is at http://www.labouroflove.org/tv-toys-&-technology/television/research-on-the-effects-of-television/ . Why reinvent the wheel?
Also, when I was in college, I wrote a paper for linguistics. The paper, "The Effects of Media on Language Acquisition," shows that children who watch a lot of television have their visual part of the brain stimulated, but because they were not verbally interacting with the television, their language/verbal part of the brain did not get exercised and their vocabulary and communication skills decreased.
Another interesting fact is that for social dilemmas, another college class I took, my classmate wrote a paper to determine whether or not violence on television effected children's behavior. Studies show that it does. When writing about how to solve this problem, she suggested that concerned viewers write letters and noted that television executives said one letter was like one or ten thousand opinions to them because for every one person who wrote, one or ten thousand people thought it.
Do you want another reason to forgo TV? It has to do with money. A Yahoo article a while ago said if people stopped paying for cable and used the time working a second job, in a certain amount of years they would have saved enough money from electric and cable bills and earned enough from their other job to be a millionaire.
Well, let's do some good stuff and be well! Be blessed readers!
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