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We do not have cable television in our home; we canceled cable a year ago. We only get local channels, so rarely do we watch the popular cable TV shows. Besides, it is a “waste of time.” As Elder Uchtdorf said, “The nonessential things that take up time should be discarded, bad habits changed.” After [...]
I recently got back from a trip in which I had to engage in air travel (since I typically do not), and I was appalled at the fact that the movies were not edited to remove vulgar and obscene content. The last flight I had been on was several years ago. It has been standard [...]
Teaching with movies is great, and teaching with edited movies is even better. Recently I encountered a website, Teach With Movies, that provides a way to use movies as an effective teaching method. This is a great way for teachers to supplement lesson plans for students K-12: TeachWithMovies.org offers Movie Lesson Plans and Learning Guides [...]
We had a Family Home Evening consisting of a lesson derived from Elder Ballard’s talk about the Effects of Television. The media’s influence in our lives become more and more damaging every day. You can read his general conference talk from nearly 20 years ago (available on the LDS Gospel Library website) and see how [...]
