Are parents going to take credit for anything anymore? Apparently HBO is starting a new series called Classical Baby, programming for babies involving animation and classical music. Are parents so lazy they can’t put some classical music on the radio and interact with their kids themselves? Come on. We already have parents using tv as a babysitter for the kids they don’t have time to interact with, what is next? And yet, many early cartoons were set to classical music. Honestly, I've layed on the couch before, turned to cartoon network and watched/napped to classic tom and jerry cartoons just to have the music in the background. Sorry.
“Secure attachment between parent and child is the foundation for healthy intellectual, emotional, social and moral development," said Dr. Eugene Beresin.
Great, so read to your kid, play with them, have classical music on in the background. I realize that some people are so bored/boring that tv is the entirety of their cultural/relational experience, but do we really want to raise yet another generation this way from birth through adulthood?
“capitalizing on the growing $100 million-a-year baby video industry”
$100 million a years is being spent on programming for babies? I don’t know which is worse, this or the infomercial I saw for videos for your cat. The cat kept swatting at the crazy butterfly flying around the screen. Ha, stupid cats.
I know, I’ll bring my baby up to the same intellectual level as a cat, then I’ll cut it off and replace it with crude humor and unrealistic situations to finish completely skewing their perspective of the world.
Perfect.
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Dude, don't be knocking the products for the cats. There are plenty of cats out there that are bored to tears, and some are even going hungry.
Be nice to the cats, but this thing with the babies and the classical music has got to go.
Motorhead is much better for babies, anyway.
Excellent post, Gibrasaurus. I especially like the Andre 3000 quote. Very informed/informing.
I am, at once, delighted and disturbed, that Andre 3000 actually said that kids are cooler because they look up to him. Hey primadonna, I looked up to Sgt. Slaughter and Ryne Sandberg.
Excellent post, btw. Quite poignant/thought-provoking. Bravo. You are the sunbearest.
Alex, is your blog done for? I can't get anything to load. Have you pulled a Fruity G. on us?
Fruity G.
(lol)
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