lessthanperfect

Two months ago I did the very brave an ‘good parent’ thing of taking the tv away. It’s in the shed behind the house. I thought that this would serve the purpose of both lengthening my 3 yr old’s miniscule attention span, and force me to be a better mom by reducing my ability to abandon him to the ministrations of the electronic babysitter.

And it has, to some extent, done both of those things. In the time since removing the tv, Son#1 has both potty trained and learned to read. I know, that’s a funny contrasting set of talents to have correlated. Anyway….

On the other hand, I’ve discovered that I used to do housework while he watched tv. And housework has become increasingly hard to stay on top of (’stay on top’ in my defective less-than-perfect world means no more than 1 sink full of dirty dishes and no grit under my feet when I walk ;-P)

So yesterday I opened a new Pandora’s box - I let him watch a movie on Hulu. He only recently stopped opining the loss of the tv set (”It makes me sad when you take away the tv”) and now I have him begging from the time he woke up this morning for “a movie on the puter, Mama?!!”

Sigh.

I’ll figure out how to balance everything. Someday. Maybe.

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