Childish Things in Adulthood

A friend posted a second set of Ten Commandments that he had as a child – some of which related to watching TV.  It prompted me to reflect as follows. In addition to TV commandments, our family each had two favorite programs on our Mitchell B&W round screen TV, and no one was allowed to change channels during a favorite. My younger brother watched “Ding Dong School” and “Howdy Doody.” My Mom watched “As the World Turns” and “General Hospital.” My Dad watched “What’s my Line” and the “Friday Night Fights.”  I watched the Saturday Major League Baseball game and Houston’s channel 13 mascot, Kitirik, a shapely lady dressed in a very tight black cat outfit – until my parents figured out that I really had no interest in cats but watched for other early-teenage boy reasons. We also had radio commandments. I was allowed to listen to “The Lone Ranger” and “The B Bar B Riders” At my Grandfather’s house, he set the radio dial on WSM in Nashville and removed the knob. We had a steady diet of The Grand Ole Opry, The Louisiana Hayride, and The Big D Jamboree. All a part of my wonderful growing up years, but I’m glad I grew up.  “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things” (1 Corinthians 13:11).  There is very little wrong with most “childish things,” and even less with the above illustrations (except maybe for my interest in Kitirik), unless they stay with you into adulthood.  Some may not be sinful, just childish.  Have you “put away childish things” that have no place in adulthood?