Morning

[lesliepear]

"Meet the new boss....same as the old boss!" I have that Who song lyric in my head today.

It's already 77 (WABC) degrees out.

Last night I came home to find Mark reading to Alan. Turns out Alan had been in time out during the day because he hit and kicked a child apparently over a toy. He decided no TV for Alan. We wonder if the older more physically violent TV he's seen affected him - we recently showed him old Popeye episodes.

We went swimming last night in the condo pool instead. Although Alan likes the water he doesn't want to learn to float. He also loves to ask the lifeguard if he can swim. The lifeguard was nice - I was having trouble getting Alan out of the water to go home so I told him the lifeguard would fish him out with the net (he likes when the lifeguard uses it to catch bugs) and he went along with it.

Hope I don't roast today.

Comments

[yeoww.livejournal.com]

I think boys in particular show aggression now and then regardless of the TV they're exposed to. We never exposed our kids to anything more violent than "Rug Rats" (although it could be argued that it's not a great program for kids because of the Angelica character) or play guns but my son at age 4 or 5 pick up sticks and pretend to shoost people with them! It really upset me at first until our counselor told us that it's normal play and not to worry.