Power of Television

When I was pregnant, I had all sorts of ideas about how I would raise the baby I was bringing into the world. One of the things I definitely planned was to limit how much television my child watched.

God laughs at our plans.

Who would have guessed that I would come to look at our television as a true blessing.

When Sally, our angel OT, first started to work with Matt, he would scream. I knew that he needed to do the therapy that Sally was having him perform, but I will never forget him laying on the exercise ball, hollering in pain.

After a few sessions, Sally said that she wanted to try something new. She popped in a kid's video, turned on the video, put the exercise ball in front of the television and placed Matt on the ball. He was so mesmerized by the images on the screen that he did not cry. After that, we had a video play for each of the painful portion of his session. He never complained about what was being done to him while he was distracted by the television.

His love affair with the television began at a few months old. While I was carrying him, had I been told that my baby would start his television addiction at seven months old, I would have been horrified. When it happened, I could not have been more grateful. I discovered the power of television can be a positive thing.