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Chock Full of Vitamins & Minerals
My son is flopped on the beanbag tuned to the Discovery Channel on TV. I justify this past time as post-preschool “downtime.” He’s watching The Magic School Bus whose episode today is all about energy expansion. So it’s educational downtime. It’s also cold and cloudy out with a big chance of rain.
Truth be told, I need to get to my work so I’ve turned on the tube.
From the behemoth beanbag I hear my son call, “Can we get that cereal? I want it!” I look up to see the tail end of a sugary cereal commercial. It’s a rare occasion when my kids see such commercials given their general scarcity on cable kiddie channels. But this one had him hook-line-and-sinker.
By Maija ThrelkeldMOM ALERT! Former Physicist Has Found a Way to Create Time
I have gained a scant bit of time by using recorded television to my advantage. Call it TIVO, DVR, whatever – I call it a time machine.
Granted, I don’t watch much television to begin with — two minutes of weather and news in the morning, and nothing for the rest of the day. But, roughly half of the nights of the week, after the kids are tucked in bed, I settle down in front of the tube to give my brain what it needs — a well-deserved break from thinking, organizing and avoiding content inappropriate for children: bring on the murder, scary monsters and scantily clad adults, all so long as they are NOT animated.
Sure, I am a day or more behind knowing who got booted from Project Runway or what character got offed on CSI but this doesn’t affect a mother of two who rarely speaks to adults, especially those who may reveal some sort of cliffhanger.
By Jennifer O'Shaughnessy
