Thoughts on TV
Note to self: Stop waiting until after 11 at night to post blog entries. On the other hand, the exhaustion sort of puts a chink in the perfectionism armor and, what was I saying? Tonight mom and baby and daddy went out to Mexican food for a big Friday night on the town. The food was good, baby was sweet; I think mom mentioned something about being a wee bit overwhelmed of late. She’d looked happy as a clam all day, but God knows my beloved has a lot on her plate with multiple family illnesses, her incipient return to work, and baby’s upcoming christening. I think the idea is to know you’re overwhelmed, which she does, and I’m glad she told me.
She thought our plan to keep baby away from much in the way of televised escapist fare should be adjusted, so our bundle of joy can be as happy as her cousin who gets to watch TV all the time. I said maybe we could revisit that idea when we were a little bit less exhausted. I may have mentioned, too, that if baby learns from her parents how to actually process a few of her feelings that it won’t necessarily be a bad thing.
Not that the world needs another over-serious person, or maybe it does. If baby grows up to be like her mother and father she may laugh and cry more than some people, and we’ll love her when she does.
posted by Harold Ambler at 11:32 PM
2 Comments:
Upon the birth of our first child, I remember saying, "My kids will not watch TV!"
And soon it became, "My kids will watch only children's cable channels!"
Eventually it turned into, "My kids will only watch pre-approved DVDs and videos!"
That last one has worked out well over the past four years or so. We've been without cable for that long and get by with a Netflix subscription. Loads of fun and educational DVDs there. We have TV nights on the weekends, and the kids are used to it.
The number one thing I want to avoid is the commercials... That's what really warps kids' minds. Even the stupidest cartoon can't damage a child like an advertiser can.
9:52 PM
I'm going to agree with Phil here...though, with only basic cable (and no ESPN or NESN) are choices are limited anyway...however, we can't justify paying $50 a month for something that we hardly watch! And we do the Netflix, too, which is a godsend. The other thing that we did this spring when we ditched most cable is to subscribe to MLB radio on mlb.com. Not to advertise, but when you're big baseball fans in general, like my wife and I, it is great to not just hear the Red Sox broadcast, but to listen to Bob Uecker in Milwaukee and Sterling for the Yanks (who sounds like he's full of gin 1/2 the time). With all that media, it's still cheaper than just the next tier cable that we gave up.
Problem is, my wife hates Elmo, throwing a wrench into the Sesame Street watching. But, Super Grover is still okay... ;o)
8:36 AM
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