Not until the boys were old enough to understand how commercials tried to promote consumption were they allowed to watch sports programs on commercial television. The basic motto of the household was “when it’s light out, you’re out”-that is, playing outdoors. With little TV, they were two lean, strong, athletic children who grew up in a home without junk food, did not pester their parents to buy things they saw advertised, never smoke or drank alcohol and knew more about wildlife than the leader of a trip to Kenya. Q8 Which is true about the author’s sons according to the text.