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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, we weren’t allowed in the house let alone, watching TV all day. Even if we did, we didn’t have cable so 4 channels (and only 1 TV).[/quote]

What! Everyone I know watched tons of TV. We were latchkeys kids. Parents worked. We had the house to ourselves. I watch Oprah every day after school, plus hours of MTV. I had my favorite TV shows- Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place on Wednesdays. Friends, Seinfeld on Thursday’s. When I was younger I watched hours of TV on weekend mornings, plus evening TV with Cheers, Cosby Show, Family Ties, Who’s the Boss…I could go on and on…

I also read a ton, and spent time exploring with friends. I never had a tutor and didn’t do any extracurriculars until high school.

I agree that education was also better, with the exception of math, sciences and engineering, which are clearly better now.  [/quote]

+1. I watched all of those shows and you could watch MTV for hours. I also liked reading so I read a lot. I did not do any tutoring type of extracurriculars, just one sport. [/quote]

I think you're too young for this conversation then. Melrose place was in the 90s, I was an older teen when it came out, not a kid. Kids in the 70s and 80s weren't watching it. Same for MTV most of us didn't have cable for a long time in the 80s. Kids of the 70s/80s weren't doing this. You are a different generation.[/quote]

I was born in 1972 and I watched a LOT of TV.  As a little kid, I watched Sesame Street, Captain Kangaroo, Electric Company and a couple of others ([b]including a great one with two hippie chicks on swings[/b]) twice a day.   I started watching General Hospital every day after school before Luke and Laura got married.  Then there was Donohue and Sally Jesse afterschool.  Nightly news every night (plus at noon at 10, if I was home/awake).  I had a 2-3 hour block of prime time that I watched basically every night.  Muppets and Little House and the Osmonds and Love Boat and Mash and Different Strokes in the 70s.  Into the 80s, there was Family Ties, Cosby, Cheers Murder She Wrote, Silver Spoons, Magnum PI, Moonlighting, Remington Steele, Scarecrow and Mrs King, Kate and Allie, Newhart, the A-Team, Gimme a Break, Dynasty, Knight Rider, Benson, Quantum Leap, Star Trek TNG.  I even watched Married with Children and the Fox lineup when it premiered in the late 80s.  Most people I knew had MTV starting in the early 80s, and had that on pretty much constantly (who else remembers the Prince video for Red Corvette?) -- basic cable was pretty cheap, and there was a TON of stuff on TBS, USA and TNT, including reruns of the old Star Trek and Twilight Zone, I Dream of Jeanie, Gilligan's Island and all the great old Cary Grant, etc., movies.  
Man, the late 80's were like the Golden Era of Television.  There was SO MUCH good stuff! Now I'm lucky if I can find one show a year that's watchable on Network TV.  I went to a top ranked college and an Ivy league graduate program, so I don't think the TV damaged my brain too much.[/quote]

THE MAGIC GARDEN!!!
Absolutely loved that show. Their song: “I’d like to say hello and how do you do!  I’m fine - me too! We’re fine, and how are you…”[/quote]

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