Now, I am the first one to want to get rid of our TV in our family.  But sometimes, mind you ONLY sometimes, it does work itself out into a nice educational side trip that we might not otherwise have taken! 

A week or two ago we were watching a documentary on the Titanic.  It was called Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces.  Maggie, our 9yodd, watched the entire episode. 

Now here is the great part, she walked over to our bookshelves (without any suggestion from me) and found a book on the Titanic.  It belonged to her great-grandfather Grundy.  The Story of the Wreck of the Titanic:  The Ocean's Greatest Disaster - Memorial Edition.  It was actually published the same year the Titanic sank.  He bought it from a door-to-door salesman.  In four more years that book will be 100 years old!!!!

Anyway, she spent the next hour pouring over it, reading bits here and there and sharing the information and showing the pictures to the family. 

Yesterday, when we went to the library, I told the girls that needed to pick out a subject that they would like to learn more about.  Maggie checked out several books on the Titanic and is going to do a short presentation about it to the family on Sunday.

Hooray for TV!  Words I didn't think I would ever say.