Would You Please Take Off That Hat

SO WHAT, exactly, did parents do with their children before television? People have been having kids for a long time, so I know it must have been something. I just don’t know what. By the way, when it comes to permissive over-telefication–That’s probably not a word, but it sounds like one, doesn’t it?–I think my wife and I are in one of the stricter factions.

We never allow it on in the background, like Muzak. That’s firm. You do one thing at a time in this house, I say to our kids, which suits their natures anyway, because we have boys, and boys grow into men, and men, as everyone knows, are perfectly incapable of doing two or more things at once, unless you count sexual fantasies as one of the two.