Before all of this mass media, families and friends talked about guiding principles in their lives. People were taught to be honest, to do the right thing etc. Teens spend an average of 7 minutes in face to face conversation with a parent. Instead, both children and adults average nearly four hours a day passively watching television. From birth to age 17, a child watches 15,000 hours of television.
Many families don t eat together.
Adults and children average nearly four hours a day passively watching television. The result has been an unprecedented negative impact on American reading and thinking habits. I say not only are they not getting God s message through us, they ARE getting TV s values . I was impressed when I heard Stephen Covey talk about his family making a mission statement. He said that it took 8 months to get one that everyone agreed to live by.