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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow.  I guess I am out of touch because I am shocked both at the amount of TV kids are apparently watching and the reactions of some parents that children are somehow being deprived if they don't get McDs and TV because they're part of the American culture.  What a sad statement about how people characterize "our culture."  My kids are 18 months and almost 4 and we don't watch TV, grown ups either.  Both parents WOTH and we frankly all have better things to do with our time than watch TV.  I am sure we will have family movie nights when the kids get older, and if TV is on at someone's house we roll with it, but honestly I can't imagine that I'm depriving my kids of anything by teaching them to entertain themselves while I make dinner rather than parking them in front of the TV.  Same with McDs.  Don't get me wrong - we eat out, we order pizza, and they eat some processed food during the week, but McDonald's?  Yuck.  Their food is nasty.  I was raised with no fast food, my husband was raised with McDs every Friday night (and he loved it then) but we are both not interested in feeding our kids food from McDs.  They have it (or similar food) on road trips, but we don't eat there when we have other options becasue we simply don't like their food.

And for those who think we're raising kids who are going to freak out and rebel - we had the same rules with my stepsons (although we opted for Wendy's on road trips, not McDs because their food is tastier I think), and they are both thriving in college and guess what?  They still don't watch much TV and don't play video games, and yes they have girlfriends and plenty of friends.  One eats freakishly healthy (way better than us) because he's a pretty serious athlete, and the other eats not as healthy as that, but not much fast food either.  [/quote]

This exactly.  I'm the mom who was quoted earlier as saying that my kid watched Finding Nemo with her grandma once as evidence that I'm totally depriving her.  McDonald's is just gross food.  We go out to eat and we occassionally order pizza, but it would never ever occur to me to go to McDonald's for a meal.  And we don't have a TV.  We're just not a TV family.  If my 3yo were at a friend's house and they were watching TV, I wouldn't remove her, but honestly I'd be kind of disappointed that we were wasting a playdate on TV.  And yes, once when she was sick, she and her grandma had a movie night.

To those parents who say they can't "fill the day" without TV - seriously?  I am happy that my kid makes up games to play on her own and is never bored.  Parking them in front of the TV just seems like such a cop-out.[/quote]

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