Why is so hard to refrain from using the plug-in drug with our
kids... our babies, even? Even though the data points to problems with
attention, obesity, and on and on, many parents continue to use TV as a babysitter,
even those who could afford to hire a real live person to put on a
puppet show (or read a book). Like many things we do as adults,
drinking too much, smoking, eating junk food, lack of information isn't
usually the cause of our misbehavior. Other factors, stress,
addiction, exhaustion, underlying health issues, run rampant over our
will to do better every day, as parents, as human beings.
The only thing that has successfully kept me from dousing my kids' brains in mind-numbing preschool programming...
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