T.V.

I make it a rule to not let my kid watch T.V. but today I had to let him have hours of it to finish my essay. Luckily he is really into Peter Pan, so I just bought the Broadway play recording and he actually watched it about three times. I figured that is at least real people acting without editing or crazy cartoon characters doing things that my son will physically be able to do. Have you ever seen kids try to reenact the movements that cartoons do? For instance when a cartoon character is going to run real fast and their legs start spinning in place like wheels, then they take off zooming? It's kind of fun to watch but it's scary to think that they are wasting their brain space on crap that is absolutely of no use to the a and completely contradictory to reality.