Comments on: Why I Wish I’d Never Told My Kid About YouTube

By: marriage in crisis

marriage in crisis — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:10:42 +0000

In today’s world, kids are exposed to those types of things from all directions…especially from the media. And no parent can stop it entirely.

The flipside is being overprotective.

Wouldn’t you prefer they see it with you, so you are there to explain things like although the scene may be unpleasant, its nothing for your daughter to be scared about, and being scared is a frame of mind that happens only if you allow it to happen, etc.

Isn’t that how kids learn to make value judgments on their own?
.-= marriage in crisis´s last blog ..Marriage Self Help =-.

By: God of War

God of War — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:28:24 +0000

Hello, awesome blog post.

By: OneHotTamale25

OneHotTamale25 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:56:05 +0000

Hi-larious! It reads to me like you are a mom who takes her work seriously and is also mindful your child does not disappear when you need to get work done. I have learned from observation it is a challenge to be a mother and a career woman. Kudos to you for being available to come to the rescue when your daughter needed you even if there was a slight delay.

P.S. If she teaches anyone the dance, maybe you could say she observed you doing an ab workout and though it was amusing???

By: Kari

Kari — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:36:47 +0000

Definitely not a bad mom! Our T.V. is background “music” in our house. She doesn’t really watch it during the week, but Friday and Saturday nights are movie nights at our house. We rent movies both nights; one for her and one for us each night. Needless to say she does watch movies, and she loves them. Don’t know if its the movie or that we eat pizza on the couch (which is only on movie night) or because we are all snuggled together, but she looks forward to it each week. I don’t think it’s that bad. My confession: my daughter knows the beginning song to “Cops” and sings “Bad boys, bad boys.gonna do, gonna, do” when it comes on. She doesn’t watch the rest, but knows that “those guys naughty, they go in time-out.” After she said that, we started saturday movie night!

By: Andi

Andi — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:12:24 +0000

That video is TOTALLY harmless – don’t worry!
.-= Andi´s last blog ..The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo =-.

By: Meg at Demanding Joy

Meg at Demanding Joy — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:58:40 +0000

You’re not a bad mom! There have been a couple of times that I wish I had changed the channel just a few moments earlier. My son has never seen the opening scenes to Nemo so he doesn’t know that there ever was a mama fish. However, he has seen the Star Wars scene where Anakin climbs out of the lava and has to be put back together as Darth Vader, screaming in agony. Very gruesome. And not my best mommy moment.

But TV allows me to eat hot food. I will not apologize for that.

By: MarthaandMe

MarthaandMe — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:45:26 +0000

Well I have to say I thought the video was not as bad as you made it sound! I want to know how the storm trooper was able to do that for so long. It made me tired just watching it. I’ve used the tv as a babysitter too – PBS was always a good safe bet when my son was a preschooler. Caillou saved my life on many occasions. I have no idea how to avoid being a bad mommy. All I can say is child number one is the practice child. Child number two is where you finally have a little confidence (and then they end up being completely different just so you have to go into unexplored territory).

By: Marissa

Marissa — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:56:11 +0000

totally not a bad mommy.

A friend of mine’s daughter plays the Wii fit with her – and there is apparently a hula hooping section where you stand on the board and make the HH motion… The 3 year old practices that move in public in front of mirrors… with her hands behind her head….

can you see it, hula hooping with no hoop… and my 2 year old has picked up on it too.

i love life.

also – check out our youtube video… its my daughter saying “Chocolate Faster”…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=938jFNvj6o8

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:19:04 +0000

The modern world seems to be such a minefield! I really admire women who manage to work and also raise children. Life used to be easier when I was a young mom. This story reminded me of a video for a tune on Free to Be, You and Me. Are you familiar with that 1970s album for kids? I searched for the video on the Internet for some blog post I was writing. Carol Channing was the actress in this particular one. Half way through, in this video for children, somehow someone had managed to impose an image of disco men dancing naked, up in the left-hand corner. It was quite funny, but totally inappropriate for any small children out there in cyberspace and really distracting to anyone trying to pay attention to Carol. PS. I second Jennifer: you’re not a bad mommy!!

By: Rhyah

Rhyah — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:21:23 +0000

Well, as long as we’re in confession mode, it can’t be any worse than my daughter knowing the words to Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance, Paprazi AND Poker face. Not to mention she and my husband were dancing to none other than the you tube video of those songs the other night. We have since decided that it may not be such a great idea to allow her to watch those videos. After all, she’s only three!

She also watches a great amount of tv thanks to my also being a work at home mom. It can’t be all bad though, because I have to say, she’s learned a lot from some of the shows, and I try my best to keep it on the more educational shows. We all do the best we can given our situations.