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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Parents with experience... do you ever get used to the children's show playing in the background? (Page 2 of 3)

Posted: 1/12/2021 1:39:14 PM EDT

[#1]

My advice is to limit and carefully monitor the amount of media in your kid's life.

We were pretty selective in the content and amount.

They are 17 and 21 now. It has paid off.

Posted: 1/12/2021 1:40:01 PM EDT

[#2]

Mufukin Ryan's world yo!!

That is the one show I will not let play in this house!

Posted: 1/12/2021 1:40:24 PM EDT

[#3]

Gayest shit I've ever heard. Wonder why we are where we are?

Posted: 1/12/2021 1:42:30 PM EDT

[#4]

We elected to NOT pacify our children with TV. Sounds like you are letting the child make the decisions for your house. Why voluntarily start making the entire rest of your life a misery? Not sarcasm.

Posted: 1/12/2021 1:42:33 PM EDT

[#5]

I either pick stuff I dont mind hearing or shut it off when it's getting annoying. Kids watch too much TV.

Posted: 1/12/2021 1:43:06 PM EDT

[#6]

The trick is finding stuff that you like to watch with your kids. Don't make yourself suffer through bubble guppies or crap like that. Otherwise you're just training them to watch mindless stuff.

When my son was 3 his favorite movies were Hellboy and Tremors. Both great movies with messages about heroism, overcoming perceived limitations and fighting to protect the defenseless.

When he was in third grade they had to share their favorite movies in class. He came home pissed off that all of his classmates and teachers only like stupid cartoon movies. He quickly realized that most everyone in the world has shit tastes for music and tv/movies.

Fast forward a few years and he'd rather watch Dr. Strangelove or Guns of Navarone with me than Spiderman and he'd rather listen to everything from Jazz to Slav hardbass than the bubblegum pop shit his friends listen to.

Posted: 1/12/2021 1:45:58 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:Do you eventually tune out the children's shows, or does it eventually drive you mad?

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We always kept the tv volume low. I am always amazed when I go to other homes at how loud the tv volume is. I frequently have to ask them to turn it down so we can have a conversation about the repairs needed for their HVAC system. Most of you guys are probably the same, you just don't realize just how loud it really is because you always keep turning it up to drown out other noises.

To the OP, try turning down the volume a little each day as your kid won't realize it, but you will. You will be doing him a favor.

Posted: 1/12/2021 1:49:08 PM EDT

[#8]

Ahhhhh......I miss those days. My kids are all big and boring now.
I’ll take your kid and raise him well if you are sick of the little guy.

Posted: 1/12/2021 1:52:56 PM EDT

[#9]

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This! Can recite all of the lines to some movies too.

Posted: 1/12/2021 3:47:37 PM EDT

[#10]

I removed the TV. I substituted instead a mom that stayed at home and taught her children. The kids also had their brothers and sisters to play with and large free range areas to explore. Instead of TV I introduced them to tools and fasteners.

Posted: 1/12/2021 4:30:57 PM EDT

[#11]

Barney

drove me up a fucking wall.

I fell in love with Sponge Bob, kids quit watching it when they found out I liked it.

Now I watch my daughter going dealing with Baby Shark with our grand.

Posted: 1/12/2021 4:34:48 PM EDT

[#12]

I’m pretty good at tuning it out until my daughter wants to dance. My son is only 6 months so hasn’t gotten to the annoying TV show stage.

Posted: 1/12/2021 4:40:40 PM EDT

[#13]

I miss watching SpongeBob with my Daughter when she was a little girl. We were watching an episode once and she said; “there’s a boy in my class who is just like Patrick”. Thought about it and realized I worked with a goy who was just like Patrick. I told my Daughter; “everybody knows a Patrick”. She laughed.

Posted: 1/12/2021 5:15:30 PM EDT

[#14]

What background noise?

Posted: 1/12/2021 5:17:54 PM EDT

[#15]

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Our boy is at that age where he can be pacified by watching TV.
Do you eventually tune out the children's shows, or does it eventually drive you mad?

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I parent my kids.

Posted: 1/12/2021 5:18:25 PM EDT

[#16]

My daughter went back to college in VA yesterday. Every time she leaves I know it's taking us that much closer to her being gone for good.

Get in the floor and play with him. The little fellow will be too big to sit in your lap next week and the week after that he will be out the door. Looking back it really seems that fast.

Posted: 1/12/2021 5:21:00 PM EDT

[#17]

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Our boy is at that age where he can be pacified by watching TV.
Do you eventually tune out the children's shows, or does it eventually drive you mad?

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Don't be one of those lazy ass parents that just puts their kid in front of a TV or ipad every day. That does nothing but screw them up.

Read to them, ply with them, craft with them, keep them thinking......

Our 5yr old get around 1-2 hrs of tv time a week.....if that much.

Posted: 1/12/2021 5:21:22 PM EDT

[#18]

I tell my daughters Downtown Abbey is about princesses so they'll watch that instead of other shit.

They're 5 and 3, it's about the only thing I can get them to watch that isn't a sing along, when we need a break. They're scared of Disney movies

Kharn

Posted: 1/12/2021 5:21:32 PM EDT

[#19]

You eventually grow to like them and fail to turn them off when the little ones fall asleep lol

Posted: 1/12/2021 5:24:13 PM EDT

[#20]

kids are 9 and 6. i absolutely despise kids shows.

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:06:41 PM EDT

[#21]

Bubble bubble bubble, guppies guppies guppies!

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:19:09 PM EDT

[#22]

I used to take the kids on Sunday morning to Chuck E Cheese and read the newspaper while they ran around. They had the bracelets to match. My kids were typically the bullies, so I had to break that up occasionally.

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:20:42 PM EDT

[#23]

One day you gonna be sitting there look around and realize you are watching peppa fucking log by your damn self like "what am I doing?!"

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:21:10 PM EDT

[#24]

Yes.

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:22:06 PM EDT

[#25]

I still have Teletubby, Spongebob, and Barney nightmares! Pretty sure I have moderate PTSD because of it.

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:22:07 PM EDT

[#26]

I tried to keep that stuff to a minimum and only let them watch stuff I approved of more than once. I nixed Peppa Pig, Dad was always an idiot like in a lot of kids TV.

Pixar stuff got watched over and over, and I was OK with Daniel Tiger and Little Einsteins and such for a while. Surprising thing about that, my kids retained all the music theory and were instant stars when they got to formal music classes in school, I thought that show was silly but it worked.

We never had regular broadcast/cable TV in the house so whatever it was we had to bring it in on purpose.

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:23:52 PM EDT

[#27]

IN. SANE.

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:27:17 PM EDT

[#28]

Tune it out. Or watch and interact . Do a bit of both depending on the shows .

Nature shows like wild kratts, nature cat, and stuff like that I’ll watch .... but anything else I just become numb to

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:31:19 PM EDT

[#29]

Hot Dog, Hot Dog, Hot Diggity Dog....

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:34:12 PM EDT

[#30]

My kids are in their late teens.

I miss watching Dora the Explorer and the gay assed Wiggles with them.

Enjoy them when they are that age my friend, they grow up quick.

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:36:20 PM EDT

[#31]

I can tune anything on tv out more than I can kids screaming

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:40:10 PM EDT

[#32]

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Spongebob makes me suicidal

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Posted: 1/12/2021 7:54:50 PM EDT

[#33]

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Just wait until you wake up in the middle of the night to piss and realize you're humming the theme song.

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Creature report!

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:56:50 PM EDT

[#34]

How did children survive before tv?

Posted: 1/12/2021 7:59:18 PM EDT

[#35]

Mostly, there are some shows I just can't stand

Posted: 1/12/2021 8:00:11 PM EDT

[#36]

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How did children survive before tv?

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Not all of them did.

Posted: 1/12/2021 8:01:16 PM EDT

[#37]

This voice, all day.

Posted: 1/12/2021 8:03:44 PM EDT

[#38]

I make my kids watch old cartoon movies on road trips.

Posted: 1/12/2021 8:27:43 PM EDT

[#39]

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@jdtbone

I'm about to put the Baby Shark on the endangered species list.

For those who have not had the pleasure... I give you 1m 45s of pure catchy living hell.

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Posted: 1/12/2021 10:26:56 PM EDT

[#40]

I'm doing this right now...was going well until someone above posted that pedo Blippi.

Posted: 1/12/2021 10:38:56 PM EDT

[#41]

My grand daughter has only a tv for movies at home. When I watch her it is Scooby-Doo and paw patrol. I think I know all the Scooby-Doo movies and shows by heart.

Posted: 1/12/2021 10:56:51 PM EDT

[#42]

Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car ?? The Wiggles ?? Sing Along Kids Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZKXMn-56e4

Posted: 1/12/2021 10:59:25 PM EDT

[#43]

Posted: 1/12/2021 11:00:42 PM EDT

[#44]

Posted: 1/12/2021 11:01:26 PM EDT

[#45]

Used to it?

Shit, Son. They're in their 20s now, and I still watch the shows.

Posted: 1/12/2021 11:02:03 PM EDT

[#46]

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You never get used to it. Some are ok, some make your skin crawl, and you hate it right up until they are gone. Then it brings back the memories from when they were little.

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Yep. Some get pretty tolerable. Molly of Denali is kind of interesting. Holy shit did I just say that?

Posted: 1/12/2021 11:04:03 PM EDT

[#47]

the toddler stuff is the worst. High pitched voices, primary colors, and the plots are abysmal.

Tweener stuff was better. Regular Show and Gumball got me through some shit, I'll tell you what.

Posted: 1/12/2021 11:04:47 PM EDT

[#48]

There are nuggets.

Handy Manny | Kelly's Hardware Store Official Music Video | Disney Junior

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDmiuFFP_7M

Posted: 1/12/2021 11:06:04 PM EDT

[#49]

Has he discovered My Little Pony yet?

Seriously, limit his TV time. The problem with the later generations is that their parents used the TV set as a babysitter.
There's a lot of subtle left-wing indoctrination on those kiddie shows.
Remember what Vladimir Lenin said, "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted".

Posted: 1/12/2021 11:07:00 PM EDT

[#50]

Sniper! No sniping!

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