Monkey Thoughts

One of the dual benefits/drawbacks to having kids is being subjected to their TV programming tastes. Unless you're one of those parents that believe TV is evil and is strictly prohibited. (For the record, I don't think that really works. I had a professor whose parents did that. He spent his early college years doing nothing but catching up on the 18 years of TV he missed.) It's a benefit in that you can get away with watching cartoons and no one seems to say anything. "Oh, you have a kid...that explains it." For the record, I'd watch cartoons even if I didn't have kids, although I find the current selection of cartoons lacking quality. The drawback is sometimes the kids don't have good taste in cartoons.
For example..there's the whole Yu-gi-oh/Naruto genre of cartoons. I can't stand those. They're like cartoon soaps, but with a fantasy element. A lot of serious stares and close ups.
Then there's the preschool genre. Blue Clues (the Steve years) is good. Dora is not too bad even though there's a lot of staring at the screen. And Boots is an ass monkey. But Go Diego, Go. Why my son likes this show is BEYOND me- other than the fact that he's two of course. It has too many lame songs. There's no content in the show, so someone decided to fill it with stupid songs. They spent about a minute on this episode singing "Waa Waa!" over and over again. I guess they wanted to have a boy counterpart to Dora. Either way, it's total shit. Yet, still not as bad as talking hands.