"Television: The Plug-in Drug"

In an essay written by Marie Winn she is talking about how the television can be addictive and how its pulling family time apart in a household. Before televisions families used to spend time together around the dinner table or make jokes and talk amongst each other, they would take the time to go see other family members and have things like game night. Winn says that when televisions came out more and more people were spending lots of time around the TV and not just around one TV, sometimes each member in the family has a TV in each room of the house where the children could be watching cartoons, the mom could be watching a cooking show, and the dad could be watching a football game. Some families are asked how much time they let their kids spend watching TV and how a typically day is for their famiy. Many families, if they have young children, will turn on the TV to keep them entertained and out of trouble but that probably is not the best solution because the kids will start to think that its the only solution. There is also a really good point made that when people spend a lot of time watching TV is gets harder for them to deal with reality because when your watching the television your not interacting at all and it takes effort to do something when you are around people.