Janis Joplin Quotes

We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.

My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.

My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

My mom actually would not allow me to watch 'Dawson's Creek!'

We have very strict rules about TV and film in my house.

I won't let my daughter watch 'EastEnders.'

We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents' Code.

For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house.

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.

My children aren't normally allowed to watch a lot of things that I'm in.

My mum was quite strict, so I was in a very strict household.

When I was growing up, my mom didn't let me watch a lot of TV. She said I couldn't watch 'Friends' or that era of sitcoms.

I'm not allowed to date. My dad said so. Not until I'm, like, 90.