um
i think uh
i like to listen to a program called Focus on the Family with Doctor James Dodson
uh-huh
okay
and from what i understand it's it's a new thing good about families these days um
especially spending time with one another i know if if i were to have children i would have trouble
yeah
because i work and uh i have my dogs and i have a hard enough time spending time with them you know
yeah i i'm i'm pretty busy myself i'm in graduate school at State and i
uh-huh
i can't see even having time for a pet let alone children
yeah really
but um
there's a lot of single parents too that are trying
yeah i think day care seems to be uh
yeah
a real big issue
yeah
and uh i'm not sure or i just wonder when we'll know what the effects of day care
yeah well actually there's been some studies that say it has some positive effects that the students the the kids get you know exposure to other kids their age at an earlier time
yeah
so they tend to be more cooperative with their peer group although they don't have real good uh role models
yeah i've heard that they they call them uh that they say that they're more um
creative that they're really just more rebellious
um-hum
from the day care
yeah
because uh the people don't have the time to give that one-on-one attention
yeah
and and i just wonder if maybe day uh the home schooling is going to come
into more and more
uh homes
i can i can see that happening
yeah because
really if you have a good curriculum
yeah
do you really need to have that certification
yeah
of a teacher i taught i taught school for a year and it was like
whoops you know it's not for me
no
because i i just don't have that discipline with children that uh you need for them to learn
right
um-hum
and uh i one day i was i like found myself
uh telling them to write their spelling words a hundred times each and i just heard this comedian say that you know something that that's how you know you're a bad teacher
um
and i was doing it just keep them occupied
yeah
i think another problem with the families uh
is is the role of television
yeah
um i don't know it seems they're using it as a babysitter instead of a learning tool
that really that really annoys me because i think i don't know i think my parents probably did that to me a little bit
yeah
um
using it as a baby a babysitter
yeah it's just
go watch TV you know
leave us alone
yeah
will numb you out
which
well i've i've heard some uh there's a book out now called The Saturday Morning Mind Control
um-hum
and uh he raises some serious questions about why do they have these really a lot of money goes into the advertising for children's programs
oh yeah
and yet uh children can't buy uh what's the deal
yeah but they can they can whine and squeal and complain
right
i'm watching Ninja Turtles
i know it
yeah
and boy the price of toys these days is ridiculous
yeah i could be
and they all have to have the same one you know
i can see having kids and not letting them watch TV and making them toys out of wood
say
oh yeah
here kid this is this is all you're getting
i wonder how long that last
well i i used to babysit for this family that didn't have a TV and their their kids turned out fine
they didn't have a TV at all
they they had no TV
were they Pentecostal
no
i mean they had a nice stereo
they listen to stereo they were into Michael Jackson
yeah they just
yeah
they just didn't watch him on TV
yeah
which i thought was pretty neat
yeah it is
it's very good i think TV has really had some bad effects on all of us
especially the the violence on it
i've
yeah yeah
and you can't control it you you know it's the cable channels sometimes you can but
yeah
boy the cable TV they'll just show anything
yeah
and that's coming right into your homes
yeah
i think TV can be good if if the family watches it together on they're watching good shows
uh-huh
yeah
PBS or whatever i mean even some regular network TV is okay
if the parents there and you know helps the students or help the the kids understand
that yeah this that happened in the TV show but probably doesn't happen in real life
yeah yeah
and there's a lot greater instance of uh children committing murders too isn't there
yeah
killing their parents and so forth they don't they see these things happening with no consequences
huh
you know
yeah you see it on TV The guy gets up and lives afterwards
yeah yeah like Double O Seven he's supposed to do it
yeah
and it's okay
yeah
so i
you going to have kids in the future
huh
you going to have kids in the future
no huh-uh because i'm like forty three
okay
and so it's uh it's too late
yeah
you know i wonder sometimes wonder if i'll ever
if i will regret it when i'm old but uh i just can't see myself as a parent
uh-huh
yeah
you know it's
i'm still pretty young i'm twenty five but
i don't know i don't see it for for at least a few years
really are you married
no i'm single right now and i'm you know sorting things out which way i'm going to go with my life before i
yeah
have kids you know career to to much into my career you know
yeah
well i wish you the best
okay well it's good talking to you
it's good talking to you bye-bye
all right bye-bye
