My parents kept a stranglehold on things like TV and Video Games, and I'm glad they did. They slowly lost ground around the time I hit high school, but because of it I spent a literally obscene amount of time building things with Legos. I built some really cool stuff, too.

I was never much of a play-in-the-dirt kid, if I wasn't building something I didn't see the point. (sure, you can build stuff with dirt, but my imagination called for a bit more than dirt could manage as a building material)