A Mom who has had enough! (Vanity)

[Mrs. Frogjerk]

The cable company, and the childrens networks are trying to poisen our kids minds!

[Mrs. Frogjerk]

My six year old daughter was watching the movie Antz on Cartoon Network and some rather INNAPPROPRIATE commercials came on! With my very own eyes I saw before me a commercial for that show Weeds and for the show DIARY OF A CALL GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!! What the hell is wrong with these people? I almost feel as though I had just halluciated and I didn't really see it. Unfortunately, it was real. I am so sick of these idiots sneaking garbage to our kids via commercials. I can't watch Sunrise Earth with my kids at 7:30 in the morning without an ad coming on about the newest birth control pill. You cannot watch a baseball game with your kids without hearing about the newest ED drug and 4 hour erections! I have completely had it!!!!!!!!!

[Ron Jeremy]

Cartoon Network is really geared towards young adults. put them on Noggin or Boomerang.

[darkangel82]

That’s network TV for you, more filth than the sewer. Disgusting, isn’t it.

[clee1]

Simple; turn OFF the d@maned TV and get your kids into reading.

TV today is not what it was 20-30 years ago.

[Mrs. Frogjerk]

The movie Antz is not geared towards young adults. The show Chowder is not geared towards young adults. Besides, the show Weeds and the show Diary of a callgirl should not be geared towards young adults. Noggin is starting to stink too!

[Tax-chick]

We never watch commercial tv - only PBS or DVD’s. Even when there are shows I want to see, such as on the History Channel, I can’t stand the commercials.

[svcw]

Then throw the TV out the window.

[deport]

Well there are off/on buttons and if necessary one can also buy/rent videos. I see a lot of families using videos for their children rather than the tv. Then you can control the environment without worrying about what commercial comes on.

[Ron Jeremy]

On another note.. why do you even watch commercials? For like 5 bucks a month u can get a DVR and never watch a commercial again.

[luckystarmom]

You need to make sure you have a digital recorder, and record all the shows you and your kids like. Then the kids only watch the recorded shows, and you teach them how to skip commercials.

My kids hate to watch the commercials now.

[Eepsy]

On the rare occasions we watch commercial telly, we make sure EWTN is the last channel viewed. As soon as the commercials hit we hit the jump button on the remote. Give it two minutes, then switch back. Even the 4 year old knows the right button to push. We’ve been training them since birth to avoid commercials :)

Our usual tv viewing is done via a TVIX with 1 TB hardrive and a 500 gig external filled with all our favorites. Unlike cable, there’s always something on we want to watch....

[shineon]

Hang in there. Sounds like you are doing a great job with your Children. May God's hand keep them and protect them when you can't be there.

[mojo114]

You are so correct. The Networks know exactly what they are doing sinking commercials into a children programming. Thank you for posting this vanity. Now get those phone calls and emails out to the Networks and the commercials that offended to just stop. Wouldn’t hurt to gather many signatures of friends and relatives that feel your way. Heck, start one here!

[Chickensoup]

Get a life and get rid of your cable. Our family ended broadcast and cable television about 20 years ago and havent looked back. We use high speed internet when we need news, and had a weekly video for our younger children. Stop expecting a sewer to parent your children. And stop settling for a less stinky sewer as a comprimise. It also permits you and your family to own your lives instead of being dictated to by the media.

Probably the most radical and countercultural thing you can do.

Also the most intellegent.

[Skooz]

The libertines will be along soon to lecture you about your close-mindedness and call you names like “American Taliban.”

Funny how the networks are absolved of all culpability. You just want your kids to watch a nice movie without being dragged into the Hollyweird sewer. But, hit the refresh button and see how that makes YOU the bad guy.

[shineon]

I am not affiliated with these people at all, but while our children were growing up, we found these films to always be wholesome and fun. And the children pretty much like them too! At least they would stay till the end. Feature Films for Families

[Eepsy]

Sheesh, there’s a ton of people on this thread who have obviously never dealt with the realities of keeping a handful of under-sixes in one safe spot whilst cutting raw meat/bleaching floors/having a BM in peace, etc.

Pharisees....

[Skooz]

Oh, and if you have access to PBS Sprout, it is the only channel I let my young’n watch. Their commercials are all family/kid friendly and the programming is top notch.