SCHOLA: Season Finale

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Season Finale

Well, I finally did it. I've been threatening it for a long time now, but it's a reality. I got rid of our television set. It was the first thing to go at our yard sale. We hadn't watched one lick of TV since we got back on January 23, so I figured I'd make it permanent. The knowledge that it was no longer a part of our household, even though it had not been in use for over a month, was still painful to the kids. Briefly. I reminded them we can still get any news, music, or important shows (namely LOST) on my computer and that has eased their worried minds.

It is surprising to me how little time we have in the afternoons from the time they get home after school, doing chores and homework, practicing instruments, and eating supper before going to bed. How did we ever manage to fit all that viewing into our evenings?

2 comments:

Portable Graffiti said...: I don't think I've ever noticed a TV in any of your houses.

But congrats on "Killing your TV" !!

As you know, I never had TV for my girls, ever, and we still don't. They both turn 18 this year, and they survived their entire childhood with no TV.

But now with iTunes, I admit I bought some episodes of some TV shows, just to try it out. There are no commercials that way.; March 5, 2008 at 8:05 PM
la Maitresse said...: Bravo!

(In fact, the only shows I care about are on Bravo, even though I work for another network, hah hah.)

But if you view television, it's absolutely important to be conscientious about your choices. It is a succubus. Eckhart Tolle, author of "The Power of Now," as well as the latest Oprah pick, has said much on the subject. And he is right.

Television does affect how we behave -- from our relationships to our study habits.

In our home, we get our entertainment from Netflix or figure out ways of viewing shows on demand, online.

And I am the weirdo employee at the network who doesn't even watch the shows that we peddle to the public. But then, I know other weirdo network employees like me. :); March 22, 2008 at 4:24 PM

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SCHOLA 101

schol' a: 1) An intermission of work, leisure for learning, learned conversation, debate, disputation, lecture, dissertation. 2) A meeting place for teachers and pupils, place for instruction, place of learning, school. 3) The disciples of a teacher, body of followers, school, sect. 4) An acronym for my tortuous blog title "Secular Classical Homeschoolers' Odyssean Learning Adventure." 5) How my Boston cousins pronounce "scholar." 6) Someone who studies at 10 o'clock for a dilla or a dolla.

These are the blatherings of an introverted, autodidactic, champion of The Enlightenment raising three daughters. At one time or another we have homeschooled, public-schooled, Catholic-schooled, cyber-schooled, unschooled, and even threatened boarding school. We have been inspired variously by The Well-Trained Mind, A Thomas Jefferson Education, and Climbing Parnassus, tempered by the writings and wisdom of Charlotte Mason, John Holt, Benjamin Franklin and Michel de Montaigne.

I try not to get wrapped up in labels, but we are secular and we are classical-ish.

We travel. A lot. Sometimes to the other side of the state and sometimes to the other side of the planet. Join us on our journey as we search for our home, navigate the waters of self-education, lounge with the lotus-eaters, and bash a Cyclops or two.