Good Night Moon
You may have heard about this:
PBS Kid's Shows Host fired over video
I think the story is missing the real shocker of this whole affair...read carefully:
Airing for three hours each evening, The Good Night Show airs soothing stories and cartoons designed to get an audience of 2-to-5-year-olds ready for bed.
Remember when we used to have these things called "mommies" and "daddies"? They used to AT LEAST find the time to get their own kids ready for bed.
UNSTINKING BELIEVABLE! Do you suppose these 2-5 year olds actually have TV's in their rooms? I am truly astounded....what will they come up with next. I wonder if the host can change diapers. THREE HOURS for all love!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know what to say...Surely one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalpyse is named "PBS shall put your kids to bed for you."
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Do I think TVs in bedrooms are a good idea? No, but I am well aware that people do it.
Guilty far too often right here!
ashamedly,
your wife
Ps....I've been wondering why I never hear the sounds of children playing and yelling through the neighborhood in the evenings.
Hmmmm
(tongue firmly in cheek!)
I've no wish to be judgemental, for I am well aware of my many parental failures, but man this just seems to be over the top crazy. I'm not a "no TV ever" kinda guy (as my wife notes), but man, bedtime used to be a precious time in the family.
I would love to have heard the PBS programming design meeting that brainstormed this one.
Also, I'd like to think that it exposes some kids who don't have that interaction to things like reading before bedtime and the like. Obviously, it's not how I tuck my kids into bed, but it's hardly *to me* outrageous. And, there are plenty of things out there that are.
Having said that, while our TV isn't in the bedroom, sometimes I turn it on sleep and lay in bed and fall asleep to the end of the Mariners' game.
I'm glad you aren't losing sleep, though. What I'm losing sleep over is how I managed to look pasted into a photo I was at ;)
As to why is there a network geared to this age set that is on for 24 hours a day, I found this explaination: "If kids wake up at 3 in the morning and are sick, they can snuggle into mom's bed and watch their favorite show," said Andrew Beecham, senior vice president of programming for PBS Kids Sprout." Right or wrong, that is their reasoning.
So why is this show on for 3 hours? The optimist in me would like to explain the 3 hour program in this way... Different kids have different bedtimes and so a 3 hour program allows kids to tune in and watch some quick cartoons geared toward their young audience before their bedtime. Whether that is the networks reasoning behind it or not, I do not know.
As a parent I do appreciate PBS' approach in this situation, they felt that one of their personalities did something that was inconsistent with what they were going for, even if 'said event' happened 7 years ago. Instead of sugar coating it, or playing it off they made a decision "PBS KIDS Sprout has determined that the dialogue in this video is inappropriate for her role as a preschool program host and may undermine her character’s credibility with our audience."
source: http://www.sproutletsgrow.com/good_night/index.html
this is all crazy, but, my youngest sister grew up with a tv in her room at a young age. She's actually a normal, healthy, and intelligent adult now. maybe despite the tv. who knows.
I'll throw caution to the wind and label it another sign of how we "moderners" are getting out of raising our own kids. Perhaps in the future we will find a way to hold our kids in a state of suspended animation (picture big green liquid tubes in your garage) until such a time they aren't as much of a burden to us.
Like big people aquariums...and hey, we can even kill them if it gets to be too expensive to continue buying nutrient fluids.
I don't know, we only have basic cable, so I don't get any of those stations.
Though, you do have to kinda laugh about entertainment that is actually INTENDED to make you sleepy.
They must have been inspired by Paradosis.
Seve K
:)~
(all my luv brutha)