id·i·ot box
noun
NORTH AMERICANinformal
- a television set.
Have you heard this term? We keep hearing that children should not watch more than two hours a day, and luckily my kids are OK with us telling them when they can watch their PBS cartoons, and when to turn it off. They love to watch Calliou, Daniel Tiger, Cat in the Hat, Curious George, Wild Kratts, and Super Why. Sometimes a mom just needs a break, blank stares into the moving pictures, quiet mouth, and things can get done. Other times the whining won't stop, and yesterday I just knew that it was time for the idiot box for an hour, I had to get work done. What did I do with the whole day before we got home? All the kids are with me now, they don't want to go to camp, so they went to my baby's speech therapy, which was a fun room with toys. Then we dropped the baby at his afternoon preschool and I took the kids for the rest of the day to a cool park that we were randomly driving by. We met some fun families, we first played with a football and a soccer ball, then my daughter found a girl with a whole bunch of beautiful Disney character dolls, they were in heaven.
Once we got home, I wanted us all to clean their room, they wanted to do other things, we had guests for dinner, and before they arrived things had to get done, thus the idiot box comes in handy from time to time.
Before our guests arrived, it was 6:30pm and my husband loves to watch World News, and idiot box took on a whole new meaning, the stories about Israel were biased, only showed one side, and unfortunately many people have as their only source of information. All we can do is educate ourselves by social media, and family and friends that live in the areas of conflict, and spread the truth loud and clear.
You Tube is the most awesome creation ever, people from all over the world can let you know what is happening, and share it, even in times of conflict. You can find fun kid friendly shows from all over the world, we love Jay Jay the Jet Plane and the one below, Masha and her Bear from Russia, usually there are more words, but this show is just so much fun!
Coach Yulia
Once we got home, I wanted us all to clean their room, they wanted to do other things, we had guests for dinner, and before they arrived things had to get done, thus the idiot box comes in handy from time to time.
Before our guests arrived, it was 6:30pm and my husband loves to watch World News, and idiot box took on a whole new meaning, the stories about Israel were biased, only showed one side, and unfortunately many people have as their only source of information. All we can do is educate ourselves by social media, and family and friends that live in the areas of conflict, and spread the truth loud and clear.
You Tube is the most awesome creation ever, people from all over the world can let you know what is happening, and share it, even in times of conflict. You can find fun kid friendly shows from all over the world, we love Jay Jay the Jet Plane and the one below, Masha and her Bear from Russia, usually there are more words, but this show is just so much fun!
Coach Yulia
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