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No, thank you, I don't actually think a cuddly, animal-shaped toddler TV will "stretch my child's imagination." I'd be interested to know how the copywriter manages to shave after writing a line like that; how does he look himself in the mirror?
Sheesh. I mean, okay, I try not to participate in "death of American culture, film at 11" handwringing. But who the hell would dream up a huggable television for babies?
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Date: 2005-12-12 08:31 pm (UTC)However, due to the location of the TV we spend a lot more time in there than we would have otherwise :^|
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Date: 2005-12-13 12:45 am (UTC)Twenty years later, I went to visit the home of my (then) roommate, where her father, mother, and brother lived. They each had a TV in their room, parents with separate rooms (my primary partner and I have separate rooms, but so we can sleep, rather than to be apart), and each sat and watched TV all frigging day when they were home. My ex-roomie had a TV in her room, which she only used when she visited them, and they'd each heat their meals in the microwave and bring them into bed and the TV. I think I saw neither her parents nor her brother for more than a total of 30 minutes during the week I stayed with her, and that in passing to/from the bathroom or kitchen.
I think I decided then that my bedroom, and if I had kids, my kids' bedrooms, would stay TV-free.
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Date: 2005-12-12 06:41 pm (UTC)So a snuggly tv would probably not be a good idea.
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Date: 2005-12-12 06:44 pm (UTC)$300 for something a kid would use for a year or three, too. I'm guessing both the copywriter and the inventor are going to make a bundle off of this.
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Date: 2005-12-12 07:59 pm (UTC)BBQ
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Date: 2005-12-12 07:09 pm (UTC)But I'm boggled at a stuffed TV
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Date: 2005-12-12 06:51 pm (UTC)If I had children, I probably wouldn't buy it, same as I wouldn't buy a cartoon shampoo bottle that required me to twist off Winnie the Pooh's head to access the shampoo.
As a side note, having written ad copy myself, I can assure you that whoever penned that line stopped casting a reflection long before Hannspree hired them :>
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Date: 2005-12-12 07:48 pm (UTC)I never thought of it that way.
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Date: 2005-12-12 07:12 pm (UTC)At least we know that's parody...
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Date: 2005-12-13 07:43 am (UTC)i dunno -- especially marketing TVs for children that small boggles me, but i don't have a good feeling for how many parents actually use TV as a part-time babysitter; i just know it as a stereotype, right up there with cops and their liking for donuts (and i trust it about equally). is this toddler TV a proven winning concept, or is it a one-off idea that will fizzle? since i'd only be making WAGs it was more fun to think up case mods for my own butt-ugly TV.
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Date: 2005-12-13 03:42 pm (UTC)The average one-year-old watches two hours of TV a day, and it rises to 3.6 hours for three-year-olds. About 1/3 of families keep the TV on all the time, even if no one is watching it. And as others in this thread have quoted, 26% of toddlers have TVs in their bedrooms. It doesn't seem like there's much doubt that American kids are exposed to quite a bit of TV from a very early age.
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Date: 2005-12-12 08:26 pm (UTC)And if it's small and portable, how do you know/control what the kids are viewing?
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Date: 2005-12-12 08:44 pm (UTC)Sheesh, Wired! You trust the benevolence of the networks.
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Date: 2005-12-12 08:41 pm (UTC)That's right, buy your child an appliance they can hug. It'll keep the little beggar out of your hair. Sheesh.
Our niece was given a television/dvdplayer for her room last Christmas. It is not hooked up to cable, she is not allowed to keep the DVDs in her room and she is not supposed to turn it on without express permission. She's also six years old and her parents were looking to give her a chance to watch her movies and dancealong DVDs without the 'help' of her two year old brother. I wouldn't say it would be my first choice but at least they gave it some thought. She earns TV time by doing age appropriate chores.
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Date: 2005-12-12 08:58 pm (UTC)Huggy TVs for small children bad. Surreally ubercute TVs for tennagers hilarious. IMO of course.
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Date: 2005-12-12 09:01 pm (UTC)About the time Alex was born, I started crocheting a stuffed toy for her. Then I lost it. I've found it again.
Is Alex too old now for a stuffed bumble-bee?
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Date: 2005-12-13 06:35 pm (UTC)MKK