To hate but still be guilt tripped by stuff like this..

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We are having a couple of TV days as I have been ill and then I see this picture on Facebook

Aibu to hate it but still feel the guilt...

I remember endless Summers of a show called Why Dont You when I was a child.

@BackieJerkhart I love Home Alone! Watch it every Xmas

@Happy, don't beat yourself up! This is just cause you're ill. They won't mind a couple of days TV, if you do other things with them when you're well.

I still remember kiddies classics like the magic roundabout (whatever happened to Zebedee and Dougal?) That taught me all the useful French I needed.

Whenever I start to feel sucked in by these mawkish memes I always think of there:

What a load of shite those things are 😏 one of my nicest memories of childhood is sitting down on a Saturday night with steak and onion rings and watching noels house party and the generation game...might have been because it was a 'family' thing we did together and then shared a big bar of chocolate afterwards. Kids need and appreciate a balance - being in front of the to non stop isn't good for them obviously but mix it up with other things and it can be part of a great childhood

Such bollocks! During my summer holidays as a kid we went on days out, holidays, etc - but my happiest memory is getting up early, getting a bowl of cereal, and watching the Pink Panther cartoon, The Raccoons, The Littlest Hobo...

Yep - black & white 70's Kids holiday TV for me. I too can almost smell the surf when I hear the Robinson Crusoe theme tune (da da da da da daaa), though there were soooo many episodes I think it must have been filmed in real-time!
Also there was The Double Decker's/Banana Splits and that creepily odd foreign language series The Singing Ringing Tree (anyone?). Happy Days!

I'm 62, so I remember when we got our first television - I was about 4. One of my happiest memories is of Saturday afternoons; we'd go to the library and get a stack of books, then to the sweetshop for a quarter of our favourite sweets, then go home and eat our sweets watching Bonanza on the tv.

It's nonsense.

Watching old Fawlty Towers videos has become a family tradition on rainy days when we're away on holiday. The kids love it.

DD and her boyfriend (both 17) were reminiscing about their favourite TV programmes from their childhood the other day. So I call bollocks on that Facebook post.

I hope you feel better soon

Loved tv as a kid. We've also been watching the Zoo on cbbc and enjoyed it as a family.

As a teen I used to love that black and white show called the world at war. No I was not a cool kid

Rubbish. Some of my happiest memories are Saturday mornings with my brother watching Power Rangers. To the point where we still get together to watch it, 25 years later, in our 30s.

I love cuddling up with my kids to watch Disney - I've just introduced my son to Basil the Great Mouse Detective, we can't get enough of that!

And I found the whole first series of the original Thundercats in a charity shop the other week, that has given us many happy hours!

What a load of bullshit. I have many fond memories of watching TV. I can remember when my brother got cable in his room and being allowed TV marathons sitting on his bed, Sunday mornings spent curled up on the sofa watching kids programmes, After school cartoons, and even my mum taking me to the video shop.

I spent hours playing out in our cul de sac but I loved my programmes.

Not every day can be an exciting adventure, everyone needs time to kick back and chill out.

Forgot to mention Belle, Sebastian and the Horses - 'on white horses let me ride away.......' See Op, as long as kids aren't sat in front of the box 24/7, television, like family holidays, or days out it can conjure up it's own magic memories later in life.

A bit of TV is fine, for some kids, like my dyslexic dd, visual things are very useful. Do not feel guilty or being ill and managing the only way you (or any of us) could.

Get well soon.

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I loved TV as a child and the adults I know most affected by TV are those who completely denied it and have found over the years that not knowing points of reference from childhood TV is very alienating.

are those who were completely denied it by their parents and have found over the years that not knowing points of reference from childhood TV is very alienating.

Cookie I loved White Horses.....

That meme is an outright LIE. I loved tv as a kid and so did bloody everyone else.

Literally 1/2 of Buzzfeed is about all the flipping TV we used to watch in the 80s and 90s. I can still remember the telephone number for Live and Kicking and I bet half of you lot can too.

Adults who weren't allowed TV as kids are always a bit weird and on the edge of conversations about e.g. Thunderbirds and 'do you remember XX??' - it's like being a visitor to your own youth culture.

In conclusion, TV rocks and the outside is overrated.

Mine could probably give you a top ten days of television.

What a load of rubbish, I remember watching some great telly when I was a child and some programmes still evoke wonderful memories. Little house on the prairie on a Sunday morning or the A team in a Saturday afternoon spring to mind but there are many many more.

I know my 20yo DS remembers our Star Wars marathon weekends with great fondness, as do I.

Oh, it's a meme for all those 'screens are the Devil' people. As the parent of one child with high-functioning autism and one child with dyslexia, I fucking love screens! Technology has made their lives so much easier in so many ways. Hurrah for the fucking telly, the smart phone, the smart television, the tablet, the dual laptop/tablet and all that goes with it. Hip fucking hurrah! If you want yours to play with wooden bricks, good on you, but fuck off thinking you're a better parent than I am or your kids are somehow better.

Shared culture is a bonding experience

I couldn't agree more, and with the general sentiment on this thread. I kind of thought that, as a nation, we'd got over the 'televison: drug of the nation' student-politics shit.

TV is wonderful these days, depending of course on what you watch (which goes for everything).

And, like so many others, I have warm memories of watching TV with family as a child. It was very important. I think the tributes to and sadness over the death of one of our great TV entertainment figures, Bruce Forsyth, illustrates just how deeply people feel about it.

What a load of bollocks. Some of my fondest childhood memories are tv based (Dogtanian, Cities of Gold, Dungeons & Dragons to name a few). And the wonderful Children of Green Knowe and Box of Delights which I've introduced as essential pre-Christmas viewing for my children.

DH grew up without a tv and hated it - he felt he missed out on loads in the playground and still lacks cultural references.

I hate uninspirational quotes on FB they're always bollocks. I used to love watching ET and the sound of music with my mum!

Total bollocks. My DBS and I have very fond shared memories of eating crumpets and watching the Muppets while all squeezed onto the sofa with our Dad (he worked away a lot). At 38-46 years old, we can still sing most of the songs and our extended family Christmas starts when we all get to our DPs and put Muppets Christmas Carol on.

Better than a vague recollection of being slung out the back door to play on the lawn.