I want to ban televison and movies in my house. It corrupts our kids!

That idea is great. I could also suggest teaching your child to plant. Planting a tree with her will really make the memory last.

I used to do that with her as we watched sesame street. Now I would like to spend our bonding time doing more productive things like teaching her to paint, or bake a loaf of bread. The kind of bonding that happens during TV time won't even be remembered when she is grown.

yes, we have done some planting :) Just chives so far, but maybe some day we will plant a tree too. Thank you

Thank you! FINALLY someone understands where I am coming from. I just want what's best for me and my daughter in my own home. I really didn't expect everyone to accuse me of being overprotective, and hiding the "real world" from my child just because I don't want her watching the same shows that teach her bad attitudes all the time. It's sad when you have to defend yourself for defending your own home.

There are some women who over protect, but I am sure you are not one of them. Like most Moms you want what is best and the only reason you want to take the TV is out of concern. I restricted some programs from my girls..lol I remember Married with Children was one of them and the girls laugh about it to this day. Thank you for theBR

I actually think it's better to go out into the world with our children instead of sitting at home watching tv with them all night. I explain things that I see other people doing, saying, and wearing all the time. The difference is, when I talk to her about the real world, her memory isn't full of television clips that made her laugh or made bad behavior look glamorous. It is true she will see it all in the real world, the difference will be, that it isn't half as entertaining when you're living in it, as it is on the screen.

It is great fun to do that. I just wouldn't hide too much from a child.

I agree with you totally!

It's good that you have excellent communication with your daughter, I believe that no matter how a parent chooses to discipline his/her child as long as the child understands why

LOL! anyone that knows me knows better. I'm one of the most laid back people on the planet... except... I don't let my daughter continue exposing herself to anything that will hurt her now, or in the long run. I gave birth to my daughter, I didn't steal her from a palace so I could use her magic hair. She's not locked in a tower...as a matter of fact, she's spending the night at a friend's house right now. I know she will be exposed. Almost every child has an ipod that they are more than happy to expose her with, but I don't have to let her watch the same movie 10 times in one week in order to let her "live" I wouldn't say I'm robbing her of any life lessons at all. I simply want to her be more exposed to REALITY than Disney's perception of fairy tale angst. What you and many others have missed is that I explain things, and talk to my daughter every day. She respects me for the most part, which is probably why I feel so strongly about her yelling at me, and saying that I was acting like the villian in the movie. I know that isn't like her at all. We also disagree about facebook, because her friends have accounts, and I want her to wait till she is 16 (which I don't feel is unreasonable for the reason of computer viruses alone) but since she wanted one so bad, I brought it up to her doctor at her appointment, and the doctor pointed out that there is a setting for children younger that 16, so I told my daughter I would check it out, and give it some thought. If that's not enough slack, that's just tough. Bottom line is, I love her. Everything I let her do and don't let her do is because I love her. But tv has nothing to do with my love for her, or being a good parent. I don't watch it myself for the same reasons I don't want her to watch, so really, I'm just loving her the same way I would love myself. I told her that, and even though she doesn't want tv banned in our house, she understands.

The best thing for you to do is to fire those people, because it doesn't make any sense for you to pay them when they aren't doing any of the work they were hired to do. Especially, since you end up doing the work yourself anyway. I don't think it's fair for you to have to throw away your money on help who are nothing but useless in the first place.

That's the problem. Tv is NOT reality. Far from it. The parents on the disney channel behave as though they don't know anything. So do the parents on nickelodian. In many scenes, they parents are nowhere to be found, and 13 year olds are going on dates unchaperoned, and making out all the time. That isn't nor ever should be anything close to reality. I want to teach my child to respect her elders and her future boss, and to do things that don't involve designer clothes, boys that also have no respect, and getting into a bunch of trouble just because it's cool to be a rebel. I've explained to my daughter that tv is nothing like reality, but she still tries to act like those characters.

Thank you for your compliment :) no, there aren't many wholesome shows, and more and more people try to become the characters they see on tv or listen to on the radio. What they miss is that the people who act and sing had to live lives instead of watching other artists on television or listening to them on the radio. If my daughter whats to be a princess, great! That means she has to go to college and get a career so that she can afford all of those nice dresses, and glittering jewelry. But hopefully... once she grows up and get an education, she will see how empty those things really are, and choose to spend her money doing something that will better herself, or the rest of the world.