I am SOOOOO going to enjoy the next few years watching you attempting to maintain your lofty goals---as we all did--some fall by the wayside perforce, others you will fling aside, laughing at your own naivete in thinking you could ever accomplish them, but some will be important enough to fight for. Unrestricted is the key word here. The only TV my kids watched for the first few years was Sesame Street and Mr Rogers' Neighborhood because they were on during the hours when any stay at home mom is at the point of complete meltdown.
Mr. Rogers. God, I loved that man. I declared a personal day of mourning when he died. He was so calm and imperturbable. When I was tearing my hair out at 5:00 pm, two toddlers screaming, no dinner in the oven, I would hear him singing that stupid song in that monotonous voice and telling me I was his friend. I wanted him to take me on his lap and solve all my problems. And no lascivious, snide comments---the man was a saint. If Barney is the anti-Christ, Mr. Rogers was surely a higher up in the heavenly hierarchy.
Most activities are fine when they are part of a balanced whole, Alex. I think people get caught up in the minute details and waste a lot of energy worrying about unimportant stuff. I know I did. Lots of love, lots of attention, losts of supervised freedom, and all the "issues"- TV, breastfeeding, types of toys, are of very secondary importance.
There! That's my lecture on parenting for the day! |
