That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother's parenting style was, 'There's the TV. Go watch it. Mommy's got 10 other people to take care of.'
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It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, 'Well, okay. You can try.'
Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.
I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.
As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.
I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.
My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.
I've raised my daughter with no television.
With my child, I hardly watch TV now.