Cartoon Network is really geared towards young adults. put them on Noggin or Boomerang.
That’s network TV for you, more filth than the sewer. Disgusting, isn’t it.
Simple; turn OFF the d@maned TV and get your kids into reading.
TV today is not what it was 20-30 years ago.
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.
Then throw the TV out the window.
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....
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.
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.
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....
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.
Diary of a Call Girl.. I love Billie Piper, she was great in Dr. Who.
Kill your TV.
It is as simple as that. At this moment, the family is watching a selected video on a scientific monitor piped from a VCR. In this way, we are able to watch about 10-15 hours of video format entertainment a week without worry of the usual dung being served as family fare.
You’ll also save hundreds of hours a year for use in other pursuits. Disconnecting from the left of center culture is worth it in too many ways to describe - try it yourself.
The Stranger
A few years after I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our small Texas town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on.
As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special niche. My parents were complementary instructors:
Mom taught me good from evil, and Dad taught me to obey. But the stranger...he was our storyteller. He would keep us spellbound for hours on end with adventures, mysteries and comedies.
If I wanted to know anything about politics, history or science, he always knew the answers about the past, understood the present and even seemed able to predict the future! He took my family to the first major league ball game. He made me laugh, and he made me cry. The stranger never stopped talking, but Dad didn’t seem to mind.
Sometimes, Mom would get up quietly while the rest of us were shushing each other to listen to what he had to say, and she would go to the kitchen for peace and quiet. (I wonder now if she ever prayed for the stranger to leave.)
Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions, but the stranger never felt obligated to honor them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our home ... Not from us, our friends or any visitors. Our longtime visitor, however, got away with four-letter words that burned my ears and made my dad squirm and my mother blush.
My Dad didn’t permit the liberal use of alcohol. But the stranger encouraged us to try it on a regular basis. He made cigarettes look cool, cigars manly and pipes distinguished. He talked freely (much too freely!) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing.
I now know that my early concepts about relationships were influenced strongly by the stranger. Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom rebuked ... And NEVER asked to leave.
More than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family. He has blended right in and is not nearly as fascinating as he was at first. Still, if you could walk into my parents’ den today, you would still find him sitting over in his corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures. His name? ....
We just call him, “TV”.
I understand your frustration. Television could be used to reinforce family values instead of celebrating the sordid side of life. I was raised on Lassie, Sky King, My Friend Flicka, The Lone Ranger, etc. and my mother never had to worry that we were going to ask her what “erectile disfunction” means. Unfortunately sex pays and television is all about the dollar. All you can do is turn it off or only allow DVD’s or prerecorded programs you’ve screened. You’re a good mother.
It is just as bad (or worse) when they show trailers for R rated movies when you go to a G movie. I think there should be a law that movie trailers (and commercials) cannot advertise for movies (shows) that are higher rated then the movie (show) you are there to see. I agree with your frustation totally.
I wouldn’t let my six year old watch Cartoon Network, PBS or Disney. We finally got fed up and got rid of TV altogether. We don’t even miss it.