Blow Up Your Television

… or at least keep it only for occasional clean movies.

The Boy Scouts of America offer this very good article on the benefits to family life that come from ditching TV consumption.

Note: Educators I know can easily spot children from a “TV family.” And it’s not because they are the best academic achievers or the most engaging conversationalists.

If you are addicted to TV and don’t know what you would do without the Tube on, the article has a number of good suggestions — from experience — for how a family might actually function better without the thing.

And if you would like scriptural warrant for this counter-cultural rejection of the idiot box, go to Matthew 17:9:

“Tel[e]vision to no man…”

You see, it’s right there in the Bible.