I have tried so hard to not be a slave to my tv, but who am I kidding.  I am an addict.  I married and addict.  We have bread 2 little addicts.  I am actually okay with this too.  I wasn’t at first.  At first I was too embarassd to admit to other parents out there that I actually let my children watch tv.  As soon as they started to talk though, they gave me away.  They can sing pretty much every opening song to every Treehouse show. 

I will say though, I do limit the amount of time they can sit in front of the tv.  There are days, like today, when I hope they sit there all day…..I am so unmotivated to do anything but breath and pee today.  Some people hire nannies from another country.  Some have their mothers or mother in laws helping to raise their children.  Not me.  I went to Best Buy and bought a nice Panasonic tv, a PVR to record 80 hours of childrens programing to be played over and over and over again.  I love my electronic nanny system!  I loathe it at the same time.  My friend Amber is living life without tv right now and I think she is a brave women.  When we first moved into our house we were without tv for little more than a month (don’t even get me started on Bell and having our satelite installed).  It was great.  I thought then that we should never have gotten it hooked up….I was probably right.  But, that was 15 months ago and we are so much more addicted now.

I would like to think that I could walk away from the tv for my own personal viewing.  I think I would miss the news and TMZ the most, but I can catch those on the internet.  What would I do with my children on days like today?  UGH! Trust me, I would love nothing more than to have no sports package for my husband to obsess over which of the 15 hockey games a night to watch!  Or better yet, his ability to watch 6 tiny micro games all at once!

I grew up watching tv.  Probably too much tv.  But, today I am an avid reader.  I play organised sports.  I get out to the park with my children.  I socialise alot…you know,, I will, if I am ever able to make some friends out here!  My point is this…just because I let my children watch tv, does not mean they will grow attatched to my couch.  They won’t be dumbed down by entertainment.  They won’t be social rejects.  They won’t be pale from never being out in the sun.  Well, they might be all of these things if I let it get to be too much, but I won’t.  My kids know how to cut with scissors and Emma knows how to ride her electric car, scooter and bike…Hannah knows how to follow behind screaming for all three.  My kids are regular kids just like yours, but they have a mother who is no longer afraid to admit that I let them watch tv…and on days like today…I demand it!