Disconnect: friends without kids

[jeregenest]

Most of our friends don't have kids. Simple fact of life which leads to some weird situations. Like today, I'm checking out my del.icio.us inbox and see friends pointing out Boohbah. And I think to myself, what are they insane? This stuff is awful and it hurts your brains worse than JayJay. Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to this?

And then I remember that people without kids have a skewed idea of kids programming.

Take bluegargantua for example. His love of Thomas is probably only equaled by my son's. And thats a scary thought.

The only solution is mroe of our friedns need to have kids.

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

I should never have turned the TV to PBS between 6 and 9 am. I should have known better. :)

But why are all these children's TV homunculi all so blobby and amorphous? I can only imagine that child psychologists out there at some point discovered that young children respond to blobs. Which I guess explains Grimace.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Can the mutaba virus kill the Grimace?

[bryant]

I have offered to have kids at an indeterminent point in the future once, and it was a special situation, and thankfully she didn't take me up on it because really, I would make a lousy father.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Actually, the only reason I bookmarked that was that I wanted to use it as mental torture/video wallpaper in my Paranoia XP game.

But you're right about the friends/not friends thing creating funny disconnects. When young parents assure me that So & So (where So & So is some musician or musical group for kids) "really do play good music," I have to admit I feel a little bad for them.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Come on, you know nothing can kill the Grimace.

(Man, it's like being a secret agent with these call-and-response pop culture references. "The eagle flies at midnight.")

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Teletubbies/Boohbah-type programming in Paranoia. Eerily perfect. But don't look at the Violet Blob. ::zap::

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Heh don't you diss Dan Zanes (http://www.festivalfive.com/pages/home.php) or Trout Fishing in America (http://www.troutmusic.com/) you heathen.

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, not all folks without kids are clueless. Kiralee and I have been the 'Evil Corrupting Aunt & Uncle' to our nephews for years successfully. We have along the way turned Kiralee's sister's son into a raving Doctor Who Fanatic (No conversation with him for more than 5 minutes fails to turn into a talk about the series in some ways). We get him used DVD's of the shows, books, etc. on a regular basis that get shipped to him.

When he was younger it was respectable things that made one think, like Alice In Wonderland, etc. We're also the ones who do things like send him 'build your own radio' kits and the like.

My brother's son on the other hand is harder to corrupt, he has the attention span that's as short as an ad on MTV. With him we've avoided media entirely, and centered on things like card games, craft supplies and art supplies, in the hope of weaning him from instant gratification.

They need a good TV art show for kids on PBS...