I think a kid old enough to be home alone is old enough to see anything on basic cable.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jun 01, 2005 12:16:44 pm PDT #8546 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Kat - Jun 01, 2005 12:18:34 pm PDT #8547 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think I'd like to regulate for stupidity on TV. Take out Yes Dear and that ilk in one fell swoop.
DebetEsse - Jun 01, 2005 12:20:09 pm PDT #8548 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm not talking about home alone (and I think there are a lot of people who would disagree with you). Even in the house at the same time, if you're not in the same room, it can be really hard to control.
Jesse - Jun 01, 2005 12:20:46 pm PDT #8549 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, I REALLY don't think kids should have tvs in their rooms.
Kat - Jun 01, 2005 12:22:30 pm PDT #8550 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh, I REALLY don't think kids should have tvs in their rooms.
bahhahaha (cause uphill battle probably in most places). But yeah. I totally agree.
My friend who has a 3rd grader has said no TV and no computer in his room unsupervised, which is pretty reasonable in my head but probably pretty unusual.
Hil R. - Jun 01, 2005 12:23:34 pm PDT #8551 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
One family I babysat for had this kids remote that just had a power button, volume buttons, and about eight channel buttons which the parents set to Nickelodeon and Noggin and PBS and other kid-friendly channels. They put some sort of guard over the channel-changing buttons on the actual set, and kept the regular remote somewhere out-of-reach when the parents weren't watching with the kids.
Jesse - Jun 01, 2005 12:23:43 pm PDT #8552 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's all so crazy to me. But then, I've never lived anywhere with more than one TV, even when I had four roommates.
Kathy A - Jun 01, 2005 12:24:35 pm PDT #8553 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Not so much--my brother and SIL have just the bigscreen in the living room, and the computer in the boys room has no internet hookup at all. In fact, after a few transgressions, the 15-y.o. nephew has been banned from the internet completely, other than school-related stuff done while a parent is in the room.
DavidS - Jun 01, 2005 12:25:31 pm PDT #8554 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
One family I babysat for had this kids remote that just had a power button, volume buttons, and about eight channel buttons which the parents set to Nickelodeon and Noggin and PBS and other kid-friendly channels. They put some sort of guard over the channel-changing buttons on the actual set, and kept the regular remote somewhere out-of-reach when the parents weren't watching with the kids.
Whereas I let Emmett watch a little bit of Foxy Brown the other day.
His reaction? "That is SO cool."
Me: "Yeah, well. Pam Grier."
Unfortunately, I forgot about the particular vengeance at the ending and had to rapidly skip over to the end over his protestations.
Allyson - Jun 01, 2005 12:25:47 pm PDT #8555 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Eh, I had a teevee and cable in my room when i was a kid, and I could read anything I wanted to read.
My brother did not.
I also was given a car when I was 16. My brother had to borrow mom's car, the keys were given only after a long discussion about where he was going and who with.
I was uber-responsible and scored good grades, my brother not so much.
Hard to make any hard and fast rules. Depends on the kid.