My parents resisted getting a TV for awhile when I was a kid. When we got one it was an old second-hand black-and-white (this was the 1970s). This TV sometime

My parents resisted getting a TV for awhile when I was a kid. When we got one it was an old second-hand black-and-white (this was the 1970s). This TV sometimes broke for weeks at a time (my dad now admits that he removed the fuse). I remember my dad watching TV with me and deconstructing it mercilessly--I now understand he was teaching me media literacy. Later on when we got a computer my folks would only get construction-set games (e.g. Pinball Construction Set) or simulations (Flight Simulator, M.U.L.E.). Later they expanded and got some strategy and role-playing games. If I wanted arcade games I had to use my own money or type them in myself from the magazines (printing game source code was a thing for a bit in the 1980s). I recently discovered a book from the 1980s that my folks must have read, and which handles media literacy really well: "A kid's TV guide : a children's book about watching TV intelligently", by Joy Wilt. Yes, I'm just as annoying to my kid as my parents were to me.