A friend posted a second set of Ten Commandments that he had as a child – some of which related to watching TV.\u00a0 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 \u201cDing Dong School\u201d and \u201cHowdy Doody.\u201d My Mom watched \u201cAs the World Turns\u201d and \u201cGeneral Hospital.\u201d My Dad watched \u201cWhat\u2019s my Line\u201d and the \u201cFriday Night Fights.\u201d\u00a0 I watched the Saturday Major League Baseball game and Houston\u2019s 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 \u201cThe Lone Ranger\u201d and \u201cThe B Bar B Riders\u201d At my Grandfather\u2019s 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\u2019m glad I grew up.\u00a0 \u201cWhen 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\u201d (1 Corinthians 13:11).\u00a0 There is very little wrong with most \u201cchildish things,\u201d and even less with the above illustrations (except maybe for my interest in Kitirik), unless they stay with you into adulthood.\u00a0 Some may not be sinful, just childish.\u00a0 Have you \u201cput away childish things\u201d that have no place in adulthood?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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