I’m coming around to that as I now deeply understand my mother-in-law’s response to why she got rid of their TV when my husband was a toddler, and didn’t get on

I’m coming around to that as I now deeply understand my mother-in-law’s response to why she got rid of their TV when my husband was a toddler, and didn’t get one again until they’d retired: “I didn’t have enough spare time to watch every program with them.” And she was worried about what 1970s/80s West German broadcast TV (all publicly-funded) might expose their little developing minds to! She has a strong distaste for many of the post-deregulation commercial broadcasters in Germany, and an absolute horror of the Internet. She never limited what they could read once they were old enough to go to the library alone, though, and as they were born in the 70s, the Internet wasn’t a factor until they were well into college and grad school.