Jack, I had a feeling you were a young Capricorn. LOL

My childhood situation was similar to yours. We only had 3 channels on our black & white TV and we kids were not allowed more than one and a half hours of TV a day on school nights. The TV was never allowed to be turned on before 6pm when Walter Cronkite came on.

Many nights I didn’t watch any TV at all. I’d be in my bedroom reading like a maniac. I didn’t read kids books, though. I read adult books — mostly non-fiction. Our father took us to the library every Sunday. There was a limit of 12 books that we could check out at a time so every Sunday I got 12 books and read them very slowly to make them last until the next Sunday.

Currently, I have been living without TV for the last 13 years. I don’t miss it one bit. Who the heck has time to watch TV? Curiously, however, I read a lot less than I did as a small kid. That’s probably because now I spend so much time writing. I might be at the opposite end of the reading/writing spectrum now but I’m still a maniac.