So much for that theory....

  Talking about grandchildren, the rite of that formidible passage through age, one of my friends said her grandchildren, 2 preschoolers, were being raised by their parents with as little media exposure as possible.  The theory being followed is that children whose minds are not battered by the sensory explosions of media sights and sounds will develop their own intellects and their IQ's will be greatly enhanced.  I maintain, according to that theory, my brother, sister, and I would be pure geniuses because when we were little the only sound we were exposed to was the sound of my mother's voice, and each others.'  We had no electricity, no neighbors, visitors only rarely, and very few excursions outside our own back yards.  Certainly no noisy mechanical toys, only a cardboard box of blocks and farm animals, and a few little toy  cars that belonged to my brother.  We were certainly free to develop our imaginations without any artificial interference.  Geez, if we hadn't moved into the village when we became schoolage, with electricity no less, the three of us might have become intellectual giants.