I wish more people saw this video

[Incognito]

I actually saw this video on Facebook. It is apparently shown in Australia, but it should be shown in the US since most americans learn almost everything from fashion to social skills from TV.

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCuA0KnITY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCuA0KnITY[/URL]

[Mish]

Interesting, I don't remember seeing this before

[Petit Papillon]

Really nice commercial

[Only-virgins]

Like father like son.

[Agape]

I watched that commercial . . . kid behaviour usually tells much about parent behaviour

[Incognito]

^^^Exactly. I really do wish that this was shown in the US. Most people here are like mindless robots who get their programming through watching TV. Its sad really. Perhaps if they saw something that was truly thought provoking like that commercial a few would think about their actions.

[misombra]

so true. that's why we don't have a tv. my little girl will be spared tv's trashy teachings, thankfully.

[Incognito]

Wow, that's really proactive of you. I don't have cable and refuse to get it, which most people scoff at. Are your children the only reason you don't have a TV?

[misombra]

no. we haven't had a tv in years.

[Gribble]

I hate TV. No way I'd let my children watch it. I'll have TV shows and movies I've selected for them available on occasion, but they will not sit in front of a screen for the most formative years of their lives, blandly flipping through channels, filling their heads with the idiot culture of America. My children aren't going to grow up worshiping sluts and drug addicts, their heroes won't be "athletes" pumped full of steroids.

My kids will be the nerds. The ones who get picked on in elementary school and high school. I'll make sure they know the kids who mock them today are the adults who will call them sir and ma'am tomorrow.

[vashti]

Kids these days don't care about TV. It's all about the 'net, and if the kid is male, video games.

[Petit Papillon]

Gribble! You will reproduce ???

[Gribble]

Not intentionally. I wouldn't wish life on this planet upon anyone.

[Incognito]

Kids these days don't care about TV. It's all about the 'net, and if the kid is male, video games.

Whaaa? I don't know about the kids in your area, but TV is most kids' parents these days. Sure they surf the net and play video games, but shows like 'The sweet life of whatever whatever' and 'nonsense like 'Phineas and Ferb' are like gods to them. Its sick. I've been over to see my brother/sister in laws and their kids go to bed with the TV on, wake up and watch TV, eat breakfast with the TV on , and then go right back upstairs and watch for hours. My older niece is getting fat and both nieces don't care to go outside much. Whenever they are forced to go outside the younger one just sits on the step pouting until we tell them they can come in. The older one will do some things, but is quickly tired and/or bored. They both return to their cable TV and animated nonsense channels as soon as they come back in. I can clearly see that they watch too much TV when my 8 year old daughter is talking to them and the 11 year old doesn't even know/understand half the words that she uses. Urgh...

[vashti]

Whaaa? I don't know about the kids in your area, but TV is most kids' parents these days. Sure they surf the net and play video games, but shows like 'The sweet life of whatever whatever' and 'nonsense like 'Phineas and Ferb' are like gods to them. Its sick. I've been over to see my brother/sister in laws and their kids go to bed with the TV on, wake up and watch TV, eat breakfast with the TV on , and then go right back upstairs and watch for hours. My older niece is getting fat and both nieces don't care to go outside much. Whenever they are forced to go outside the younger one just sits on the step pouting until we tell them they can come in. The older one will do some things, but is quickly tired and/or bored. They both return to their cable TV and animated nonsense channels as soon as they come back in. I can clearly see that they watch too much TV when my 8 year old daughter is talking to them and the 11 year old doesn't even know/understand half the words that she uses. Urgh...

Do they have a computer? My boy never DID care much for TV (of course, he's not a computer addict, either. He's too physically active.) My girl gave up the TV when she got her computer. I can't even get her to watch a movie nowadays. Maybe it's a west coast thing?