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fer sure, fer sure.....

posted by benzinha on August 29, 2005 at 8:10 PM | link to this | reply

It's not the longevity but the continuous barrage.

Second verse, same as the first.

posted by majroj on August 29, 2005 at 7:00 PM | link to this | reply

maj, well, it's now taken their minds to butts and breasts and knockin'

tha boots or whatever it's called today. What is is called today anyway? I use the word humpin' when talking to my 11 year old granddaughter to keep us both smiling while I lecture her on something serious.

I see today's pop trends having the shelf life of a double dutch jumper's turn inside the ropes, not too long, but flashy while it lasts.

posted by benzinha on August 29, 2005 at 1:05 AM | link to this | reply

Pop culture was invented to take our minds away from our parents and

give them to Levi Straus, Mattel, and Colgems Records.

posted by majroj on August 28, 2005 at 11:20 PM | link to this | reply

homegirl, homeschooling moms have my permission to have dvds in cars!!

posted by benzinha on August 27, 2005 at 1:10 AM | link to this | reply

cynthia, I live like that and always have, since divorcing the rich fella,

and you just live, you don't prosper, you invent free fun or have none and buy everything and I mean everything used. Except food, maybe. Have to see that show. Think I saw one episode, but not that one.

posted by benzinha on August 27, 2005 at 1:09 AM | link to this | reply

maj, pop culture took their minds and fluffed them into oatmeal.

You made me sad with your observations.

posted by benzinha on August 27, 2005 at 1:07 AM | link to this | reply

I put TV's in my kids rooms once

when I began homeschooling I took them out.  I felt horrible about taking back what I had given, but when I started homeschooling them I got to know them alot better.... Imagine, getting to know your own kids.  That knowledge showed my how bad too much tv was for them.

ON the other hand, we have a dvd in my Mini van... and thank God!  In such close quarters to each other we needed the distraction from who is looking at whom and who is touching who!  Peace perfect peace...   Here's the catch... you can use educational dvds like school house rock, and history documentaries.... It's called "car schooling!"

posted by homegirl on August 24, 2005 at 7:04 AM | link to this | reply

B- I loved this post, just

visiting you again after a time away. I think you would have enjoyed the opening program in Morgan Spurlocks (SUPERSIZE ME) TV series "30 Days" on FX. He and his girlfriend tried to live on minimum wage, somewhere in the bowels of Ohio, for one month, for real, no cheating. It was an eyeopener for those folks who think minimum wage is synonymous with "living wage" - it ain't.

posted by Cynthia on June 26, 2005 at 1:54 PM | link to this | reply

I've shown my offspring everything I know...

well, not everything, I hope neither of them needs to know how to set up overlapping fields of fire or make a bomb with flour, a candle, an oatmeal cannister...you get the drift and I don't want you taking our Congress with the help of Quaker Oats.

And it has been wasted.

Pop culture took their minds. Nuff said...

posted by majroj on June 1, 2005 at 10:06 PM | link to this | reply

I'm with you, Benzhina! Every step of the way!

Cars are so well-balanced, climate-controlled, and filled with internal entertainment possibilities, a drive in the country can be accomplished without once experiencing the world through which one travels...  I knew a teenager once who didn't look out the windows because, in her so-very-wise opinion, it all looked the same as when she was driven around in Texas. This, as we drove through the rainforests of the Pacific NW!

TV in the bedrooms?  Doesn't she want to see her kids anymore?

posted by Ciel on June 1, 2005 at 10:18 AM | link to this | reply

That was a beautiful rant!!

posted by Holy_Grail on May 31, 2005 at 6:28 PM | link to this | reply

I agree with a lot you have said, but I guess the time factor nowadays doesn't allow for as much parental contact as there used to be, with mothers anyway. When my boys were little and I was working full time, I did try to make time to show them things, but the lack of time certainly limited my efforts. Its not an excuse, its just a statement. When the boys were younger they did spend a lot of time outside doing all the things that boys do and suffering the bruises, scraps and torn clothing as a result. Now they are teenagers they do prefer the TV.

posted by Ca88andra on May 30, 2005 at 2:02 AM | link to this | reply