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Post by thyme4change on Aug 23, 2012 16:39:30 GMT -5
Part of the journey of being a parent is to tell your kids "no" when something is truly bad for them. But, I find that there things that I just plain don't like, but there is no good reason to forbid my kids from it.
My son watches Sponge Bob, Square Pants. I want to stick an ice pick in my ear drum when it comes on in hopes of never having to hear any of it (the song, or the dialog.)
My daughter has a friend I don't like. She is just annoying.
I have to grit my teeth, because I want to reserve my "forbidding" power to things that matter.
What stories do you have about things your kids loved, but you did not care for so much?
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Aug 23, 2012 16:42:28 GMT -5
When my oldest was about 18 mo old, or may be even younger, my IL's decided to introduce him to Elmo. The introduction went far beyond TV show - every toy, every book and even FURNITURE was Elmo based for the following 2 or so years. If I didn't have such an awful fear of throwing up, I would have been puking for years now.
Lena
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Post by weltschmerz on Aug 23, 2012 16:43:48 GMT -5
I hated it when my son idolized rappers. Thank goodness he grew out of it.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 23, 2012 16:44:56 GMT -5
Just the damn couch eating puppy they talked us into. I keep telling her that if her behavior doesn't improve she's going to wind up at the bottom of a hole in the yard, and have even gone so far as to start digging a little just to let her know I'm serious. She just looks at me with this face that's like, "I have no idea what you're saying right now," then she licks me. Stupid dog.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 23, 2012 16:51:10 GMT -5
My husband forbid "Jesse" - he said he can handle the rest, but not that one. I talk to my daughter often about any of the shows where parents are basically non-existant. I hate that. I like Good Luck Charlie - cute show, AND the parents are a huge part of it.
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Post by swamp on Aug 23, 2012 16:53:50 GMT -5
Wonder Pets. Kraft Mac and cheese.
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Post by movingforward on Aug 23, 2012 16:56:02 GMT -5
Just the damn couch eating puppy they talked us into. I keep telling her that if her behavior doesn't improve she's going to wind up at the bottom of a hole in the yard, and have even gone so far as to start digging a little just to let her know I'm serious. She just looks at me with this face that's like, "I have no idea what you're saying right now," then she licks me. Stupid dog. Adorable dogs don't count
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Post by movingforward on Aug 23, 2012 16:57:36 GMT -5
When I would babysit my niece as a small child she used to want to watch teletubbies and barney. I thought I was going to slit my wrist!
ETA: Finally got her to watch 101 Dalmations which she just referred to as doggies. Much better...
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 23, 2012 17:03:10 GMT -5
About the same as Wizard's of Waverly Place - the whole family was in every episode. The parents had real personalities, etc. The friend/school dynamic was secondary plot points.
These are both Disney shows. But, so is Shake it Up, and those kids have no parent relationship. I mean, they live in the middle of Chicago and perform on a television show, but their parents never, ever give them a ride to the studio? I give my kids a ride to their friend's house around the block! And the parents never come to a show, or deal with the producers of the show. Seems somewhat illegal and not terribly prudent.
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Post by t-dog on Aug 23, 2012 17:08:03 GMT -5
WWE - my 9 year old son is soooo into wrestling and I hate every second of it. He has the action figures, mini wresting ring, and constantly wants to wrestle. I usually end up black and blue from those sessions. I am hoping by the end of this school year the WWE is a distant memory.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 23, 2012 17:08:18 GMT -5
I had a friend in high school who swore up and down that Teletubbies was the greatest show ever, provided you dropped acid before watching. I've never seen it, so I don't know.
In our house we banned the 3B. Bratz, Barby, and Barney. I've watched way too many Disney shows though. I think I've probably seen every episode of Zack and Cody ever made, at least three times.
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Post by t-dog on Aug 23, 2012 17:08:26 GMT -5
On the other hand he also loves Good Luck Charlie.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 23, 2012 17:10:42 GMT -5
My daughter figured out Disney after they had moved onto the boat, so I missed many years of it - the whole hotel portion, plus the first year or two of the boat. I was somewhat happy about that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2012 17:11:12 GMT -5
Roughhousing, but I am speaking as a grandparent. I can't stand the tumbling, the running, the yelling, the wrestling, and so on. My son and son-in-law encourage it (the oldest grandsons are 6, 6, and 8, but the 4 year-old-granddaughter joins right in . . . the toddler and bay don't). It's not in the yard, which would be fine, but in my house. It doesn't hurt anything really. They are just kids. I can take it much better than DH, who hasn't been around a small child in years. He is 69 and has to sometimes go out on the deck or something to get away from it all. I just have another glass of adult beverages so i can chill.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 23, 2012 17:12:35 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2012 17:13:55 GMT -5
Keep wishing. I think my 33-year-old son is still into it . . . the nerd even. I had to watch Miss Elizabeth and Randy Savage get married. I knew Hulk Hogan before he was a governor. I hate wrestling, but now it is my DIL's problem. Thank God that if they don't grow up, they (usually) relocate.
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Post by shanendoah on Aug 23, 2012 17:21:37 GMT -5
southernsusana: Your son obviously did not train you well. Hulk Hogan is not, and never was a governor. Jesse "The Body" Ventura, however, was a governor, and then got his own conspiracy theory show and made everyone on it call him "Governor". DH is a total conspiracy theorist, but even he couldn't watch Ventura's show.
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Post by movingforward on Aug 23, 2012 17:28:55 GMT -5
"I had a friend in high school who swore up and down that Teletubbies was the greatest show ever, provided you dropped acid before watching. I've never seen it, so I don't know."
That baby's head floating in the sky used to give me nightmares.
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Post by Colleenz on Aug 23, 2012 18:05:03 GMT -5
I want to live in a pineapple under the sea.
Seriously, you have to drop tabs to come up with this stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2012 18:05:27 GMT -5
Pretty much every show on Disney is annoying. I can't stand Victoria Justice or whatever her name is. I do like Good Luck Charlie. I think that is just a good little comedy show overall. I also like Drake and Josh. Don't like Spongebob either but it is everywhere and some of the episodes really are clever. My sons love hip hop and Little Wayne. I like rap so that is fine but the lyrics aren't something i want them playing out loud when younger kids are here. I hate "Screamo" music and just won't allow them to play that in the car. My son wears his hair pretty long. Looks shaggy but he washes it and it is his hair so that is up to him. I don't like the Xbox either as they become obsessed with it, scream at the TV while playing it and stuff like that. I let them play it but limit it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2012 18:15:39 GMT -5
southernsusana: Your son obviously did not train you well. Hulk Hogan is not, and never was a governor. Jesse "The Body" Ventura, however, was a governor, and then got his own conspiracy theory show and made everyone on it call him "Governor". DH is a total conspiracy theorist, but even he couldn't watch Ventura's show. You are right. I have tried to block this out of my head in the past fifteen years or so. They all were the same to me.
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Post by kittensaver on Aug 23, 2012 18:36:10 GMT -5
Barney - ugh.
When my teenagers starting arguing or fighting, I would threaten them with Barney . . . as in: "If you keep this up, I'm gonna make you hug and sing the Barney Song." Magically worked every time :-)
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Post by qofcc on Aug 23, 2012 19:23:59 GMT -5
My kids liked to listen to annoying popular music on the radio while in the car. I listen to country & classic rock. That rap stuff I find especially annoying. I'd take it for as long as I could, then right before I wanted to crash the car, I'd tell them we're not going to listen to music that promotes violence - and it does because it makes me want to hit something.
I really can't think of anything else they loved that annoyed me. I didn't care for a lot of the stuff they watched on TV but I'm really good at tuning things out. I could sit in the same room and read a book or something. If they wanted me to watch with them instead of just sitting nearby, they needed to pick something I didn't mind. I don't mind watching Disney movies again and again, but I'm not watching more than one episode of Barney in a sitting and absolutely no teletubbies.
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Post by milee on Aug 23, 2012 19:52:22 GMT -5
I'm so going to hell. There wasn't a single kid's show that didn't seem like a recipe for turning us all into puddinheaded idiots that were ironically simultaneously too lazy to get off the couch yet weirdly violent all at once, so we just didn't watch any of them. In Phoenix, it was easy to avoid because we didn't have cable TV and only got 3-4 channels, but in Florida, the best internet service included FIOS, so I just never bothered to learn the channels and they were used to not watching by then. The music thing is a toughie. In our family, I'm the one that likes rap, current popular stuff and some classic rock. Of course, most of the rap is not appropriate for kids, so I listen to it when they're not in the car. My oldest son, though, has formed an unholy alliance with DH and they both like 80s music. All day, every day. I guess it could be worse, if any of them start listening to country, I'm buying ear plugs.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2012 20:16:41 GMT -5
We gave up tv when the kids were really young... They did watch done of that stuff at grandparents, but I didn't have to watch it... Only brought DVDs home I liked...
Sons music is usually good... I can't do hours of metal or dragonforce, but he likes lots of classic rock... Daughter on the other hand... If I have to listen to more than one owl city song a day, I feel like vomitting...
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Post by taz157 on Aug 23, 2012 20:16:48 GMT -5
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Aug 23, 2012 22:21:00 GMT -5
Wonder Pets. Kraft Mac and cheese. Gaaaaaa!!! Really, you had to bring that up! Now I have that f-ing song in my head My 3 yr old loves this show! What's gonna work... Team work!
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Post by happyhoix on Aug 24, 2012 7:00:12 GMT -5
When DS was young (he's 23 now) someone bought him this video that was about a birthday party for this blond girl in a red dress. It was basically a bunch of musical numbers all strung together. He watched that damn thing every.single.day. Sometimes multiple times, until I could stand no more.
I grew to hate that girl. That smarmy, perky, saccharine little blond bitch. I thought about hiding the video, but DS would have been heart broken. He loved singing and dancing along with the songs.
Fortunately he grew out of that and started liking the Pee Wee Herman show - that I liked!
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Post by swamp on Aug 24, 2012 8:03:42 GMT -5
Wonder Pets. Kraft Mac and cheese. Gaaaaaa!!! Really, you had to bring that up! Now I have that f-ing song in my head My 3 yr old loves this show! What's gonna work... Team work! Ming Ming to the rescue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 8:05:07 GMT -5
Gaaaaaa!!! Really, you had to bring that up! Now I have that f-ing song in my head My 3 yr old loves this show! What's gonna work... Team work! Ming Ming to the rescue!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My daughter has reverted to talking with a terrible lisp since starting to watch that show. I have to remind every 5 minutes to talk like a big girl.
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