Too much tv is not good.

There is no tv in the long house. When we have nothing to do, Hajar and I would watch Cinta Balqis reruns on the net. Or sit around and talk when aishah comes back from the hospital, sometimes with Shaz too when she comes over. But they would fall asleep very quickly, then, back to Balqis.

Now back at the flat, mimi has installed astro, so after 2 weeks of being without tv, I have spent 3 days infront of one, while doing other things.  I love sitcoms or movies or cooking and travel channel , whatever is interesting and there are plenty on astro.

How do I give up watching tv? There are more bad then good on tv. Almost everything is unislamic. I am old so I notice but for growing kids, they absorb these ways and it grows with them. So unless we balance it up or weigh it down with solid Islamic values, these children would  be devoid of them and get attracted to what they pick up everyday on tv.

So, we have to bring in  some realities of Islam in our houses.  Solat and Quran reading, tazkirah or whatever that you can do to inculcate the values in our family. A few hours of Islamic hour, any activities that is encouraged by Islam. For example hand crafts, learn arabic, visiting, a good deed for the day, anything good. Its not easy since the Islamic values are not as contagious as the western ways which is everywhere.  By a press of a button would bring all the fun, the freedom and sex into our homes. The young ones would soak up all the stories, forgeting that  they are only stories,  and lost the sense of reality.

Please also note, the west is influenced by alchohol. And alchohol makes people lose their heads.They are always drinking  it, or putting it in their food (watch asian food channel and see).  We muslim does not even have a drop in our bodies, how can we ever be the same? Think the same or have the same values? A chinese friend of mine  once drank some beer at an office gathering and soon she forgot where she  stays and we did not know how to send her home.

And doa everyday as much as possible for our children to stay on the right path.