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The family that plays together stays together
Entertainment
It’s all around us. We’ve got television, radio, DVDs, computer games,
ring tones, iPods. Yet we’re not doing the entertaining. We’re being a
passive audience – couch potatoes. Doctors and health experts
continually warn us about what’ll happen to us if we don’t take more
exercise.
Home entertainment
What about some home entertainment then? Bring back the Saturday night
singsongs around the piano in the living room. Mum hitting the ivories,
sister Josephine turning the pages of her music and Dad bellowing out a
selection of music hall songs. Can’t bring it back though, can we? It’s
progress. Or is it? Singing is one of the healthiest things you can do.
Probably better even than walking or swimming (two highly recommended
forms of exercise). But there are other forms of family entertainment.
Playing board games together as a family keeps the brain agile.
Victorian values
So, straight away you can see that a return to Victorian values could
lead to a healthier and brighter population. We could have a land of
happy, singing, ‘snakes and ladders’-playing people. Sounds terrific.
So, how can we drag today’s families away from their ‘soaps’ and their
Game Boys?
A competition?
Something linked to the lottery might work. People troop down to the
corner shop to buy a million to one chance of a fortune. Well, actually
it’s one in many millions. Now, how to keep old and young at home and
get them to provide their own entertainment? A competition? That’s it!
Home Entertainer of the Month. That’ll get ‘em. Tiddlewinks - Champion
of Chestnut Grove. What could be more exciting? A genuine return to
true Home Entertainment!
TV again
Ah, but hang on a moment – what’s the incentive? Prize money. Big
money. I know – televise it. Have phone in votes. Chris Tarrant in a
different living room each week. There you are – a return to the
genuine home entertainment of our grandparents. Hang on a minute – it’s
going to be on TV. That’s not very revolutionary after all. Ah well,
where’s my X-box?
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