216.根据下列内容，回答216-220题。
Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family roundtable at dinnertimeand exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member.
We listened to each other and the interest was not put-on; it was real. Our family was a unitand we supported each other, and nurtured each other, and liked each other, and--we were evenwilling to admit--we loved each other.
Today, the family roundtable has moved to the local fast-food restaurant and talk is not easy,much less encouraged.
Grandma, who used to live upstairs, is now the voice on long distance, and the working
parent is far too beaten down each day to spend evening relaxation time listening to the sandboxexperience of an eager four-year-old.
So family conversation is as extinct as my old toys and parental questions such as "What haveyou been doing, Bobby? " have been replaced by "I'm busy, go watch television. "
And watch TV they do; count them by the millions.
But it's usually not children's television that children watch. Saturday morning, the children'shour, amounts to only about $ percent of their weekly viewing.
Where are they to be found? Watching adult television, of course, from the Match Game inthe morning, to the afternoon at General Hospital, from the muggings and battles on the eveningnews right through the family hour and past into Starsky and Hutch. That's where you find ourkids, over five million of them, at 10 p.m., not fewer than a million until after midnight! All ofthis is done with parental permission.
Television, used well, can provide enriching experiences for our young people, but we mustuse it with some sense. When the carpet is clean, we turn off the vacuum cleaner. When the dishesare clean, the dishwasher turns itself off.
Not so the television, which is on from the sun in the morning to the moon at night andbeyond !
Parents must exercise some control and show some concern about the cultural influence on thechild when a program not intended for that child is viewed. Parents need to intervene. Noninterventionmay be a wise policy in international affairs, but the results of parental nonintervention will not bewise at all.
From the first two paragraphs one may infer that the writer's attitude towards "the olddays" is___________.
