I swore as a new parent I would never let my child watch television or get into video games, except maybe on the rare occasion something educational came on PBS or Discovery Channel. Well, that (along with many other things I swore I would never do, save those for another post) went out the window this New Years. Alex's beloved Uncle Phil gave him the first season of Fraggle Rock -yes the show we watched as kids, for Christmas. Jay and I thought it would be kind of cute to see his reaction to the Fraggles and truthfully we wanted to watch it too, plus it was a gift and it would be rude if we didn't watch it. We now watch one episode after dinner every night. He loves the Fraggles. He sits for the whole 30 minutes and watches their every move. He has his Fraggle chair or sometimes will lean on one of his toys right beside the tv for the up close and personal touch. One of his newest words is Gobo (but since he can't say "g" yet it's Dobo), he even recognized a Gobo puppet at the library the other day when it took me a few minutes to get the connection. I don't know if we are created a monster or have opened up Pandora's box but for now it is working. He occasionally will see the DVD box lying around and want to watch but is easily distracted while we get the box out of sight. 30 minutes of tv a day can't hurt, right????
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Our daughter loved Fragglerock and we used to let her watch it a few days a week for 30 minutes or so. I think a little viewing is good for them but we didn't want her being a couch potato!
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