We started our break with a trip to the park to feed the ducks and geese. It's always funny to see the kids negotiating how close they can get without getting pecked. We also saw several turtles and the kids insist that they saw a "huge rattlesnake." Now, I'm not saying that they did or didn't....I'm just saying I didn't see it myself.
After we fed the ducks, we fed ourselves at Gatti's. The kids wanted to sit in the little room with the big t.v. and I gave in. We were the only ones in the room and there was a show on Nickelodeon that my kids don't watch. I still screen everything they see and the list of approved shows is pretty short. The show on yesterday was The Fairly Odd Parents. After about 5 minutes, I was completely regretting that we had chosen to sit in front of the t.v. I asked the lady behind the counter if she could change it to the Disney Channel and she told me that they didn't get that channel. ????!!! So, instead of moving 5 kids while they were eating, we sat through it and I ran damage control the whole time. The cartoon--yes, cartoon--had a male main character who was pregnant and in the hospital trying to deliver the baby, a female reporter who was scantily clad, and more images of violence and rude behavior than I care to count. I tried really hard to come up with one redeeming quality about the show and just couldn't find one thing. I didn't plan for our simple pizza dinner to turn into a deconstruction of a "kids" show, but that's what happened. I'm just not sure who the target audience is for this program. There were commercials for some fairy Barbies, so I'm guessing they expected young children to be watching. Really?? I mean, really!? There are so many little girls watching this show that Mattel felt compelled to pay for ad time?? Luckily, all the kids with me were very adept at picking out all the horrible things in the cartoon and their abilities to recognize bad behavior and inappropriate images at least made me a little happy.
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