Not bad right. Not bad if it wasn't a Sandra Boyton CD.
I was the mom that purchased the Baby Einstein movies and CD's before Syd was born.
When in the car my kids never listened to "the radio". Mostly because Sydney wanted her music in. We always had a Lori Berkner, Sandra Boyton or Little People CD in.
Soon enough Syd was started singing the songs that she heard and I decided that I didn't want her subjected to some of the lyrics in the songs on the radio that I liked listening to. Same thing with TV. I fast forwarded through the bad parts in Disney movies. For the longest time the fire scene and fight scene never happened in The Little Mermaid.
My kids haven't watched The Lion King yet.
I don't let my kids watch Sponge Bob (they call each other names as it is, why make it more colorful), Wizards of Waverly or Hannah Montana. I just didn't feel like Syd was old enough for that kind of situational type comedy.
During play dates....I would hear Syd's friends going on about Hanna Montana and Syd would say...."I LOVE Hannah Montana" When she first did it, I don't think she had any idea who she even was.
The only TV Jan and I watch is sports...seriously. Not even Oprah. So my kids are, pretty sheltered.
They mostly watched Sprout and PBS kids until a year ago when I found out how much I liked Phineas and Ferb and The Penguins of Madagascar.
We bought the Wii just dance game (rocks)....I noticed Sydney singing some of the more popular songs on it throughout the day while she was playing. I was amazed at how fast she picked up on the lyrics.
She also got a Kids Bop CD at McDonalds a year ago that has just been collecting dust and just recently pulled it out. She was quickly singing, "S O S please someone help me. boy Y O U are....." only she was singing it, "SOS P someone help me YOU are making me feel this way."
She wrote it on papers and stuck it to her wall and would hold school, pointing to the letters and having the boys repeat them with her. (I tried to correct her....it wasn't going to change the way she sang it so please is P :)
Fact is. When do you let go ? When do you let them watch older programs ? Listen to grown up music ?
She's not a baby anymore. but she's still so little and impressionable.
I'm not going to start letting her watch The Office if she gets her homework done.......but what I thought were programs for pre teens seems to be the big thing for 4-8 yr olds now.
Syd asked if she could watch the Karate Kid. We had it from Netflix. I asked her how she even knew about it and she said her friends at school had all seen it and were talking about it.
Jan and I watched it last night. I wouldn't let her watch it..mostly because of the swearing and violence.
Am I being too over protective ? Seriously ?
My parents let us watch a LOT of stuff that I would NEVER let my kids watch.
We watched Poltergiest and Alien, Carrie (what were they thinking?). We also watched Girls Just wanna Have Fun, Footloose and Grease....which my best friends parents wouldn't let her watch. I never for the life of me could understand it....now, I get it. I can't believe my parents let me watch Footloose. With the whole, he beats her up part....she's a big slut....nasty dancing at a bar, underage, smoking, disrespecting adults, drugs.
Hell, the scene where she's driving with one foot on one truck and one foot on the other truck is reason alone. That's some crazy shit to put in a childs head. And we were just crazy enough to try it. We never did ??...I don't know why. hmm ?
So my question is this. How do you edit what your kids watch and listen to ? Or do you ?
And at what age do or did you move on from "There was an Old Lady who swallowed a fly" to "Lady Ga Ga" ?
Syd, remember when you were 3....and you were singing grown up songs.
See, I haven't been overprotective. This isn't a Little People song. :)
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