**Theatrical Plays
Reflect on plays in the theater and the notion of the stage. We certainly encourage living as though the world were a stage. The idea of a formal theater stage came as a means to frame the actors to enhance the focus on what we were being encouraged to believe as true. Television in a rigid manner draws on this notion, and it encourages us to believe (the tenth in this list of assumptions) in what we watch. Unfortunately we forget that the world is still the stage; and we become convinced that only by watching something, do we hope to achieve a state of playfulness. In my childhood home, we didn’t own a television yet, and a four-year-old visitor asked my mother plaintively: “But what do you watch?”
Many parents limit a child’s television consumption in order to keep the child's imagination accessible and active. So we have to encourage ourselves to take the stage back out of the television and put it out in the world where it truly exists. And we have to limit more than just our consumption of TV. We have to limit our consumption of all kinds of ::prepackaged ideas.
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