Who else here makes their kids MUTE all commericals while watching TV?

[Shine]

It's like a thing with me. I get soooo annoyed listening to all those crappy, mind-numbing and frenetic commercials, I usually threaten the kids with the TV being immediately and forcibly turned OFF unless they instantly mute all and any commercials, while watching their morning cartoons.

I guess I'm a bit of a control freak, but oh well. The good news is, the kids have gotten VERY adept with the remote control MUTE button. :evilgrin:

chuckle, chuckle.....

Maybe some of you other parents out there can relate? Just curious....

On the other hand, maybe I'm completely nuts and my kids will deal with their over-controlling mother issues later in life, via intensive therapy. Hey, it could happen.

Hell, we're just doin' the best we can, dammit. Testify.

Shine

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. I'm no parent, but in my house, I just change the channel.

Commercials ANNOY me.

:mad:

[Shine]

2. Yeah, that's become my 12 yr old son's latest MO, too: channel surfing

til he hits something with NO commercials.

He's becoming his father. heheh.

;)

[Guy Fawkes]

3. I mute commercials when I'm reading..

of course, the only thing that can make me watch TV while reading is The Daily Show.

[Shine]

8. My big confession: I have never seen an entire episode of The Daily Show

Can't stay up that late and we don't do the Tivo thang. Oh well, no biggie. I've seen bits and pieces, though, and have a great appreciation for Jon Stewart's work.

I'm more into the reading scene, like you.
:thumbsup:



:hi:

[LeftyMom]

4. We Tivo and fast forward

but the same general idea.

I got real sick of commercials the first time by son started flipping out and begging when we went by a McDonald's. He's never eaten there in his life, so for a commercial (or in the case of McDonald's many many commercials on nearly every kids show) to get him to have a screaming crying shitfit to go somplace he's never been and eat something he wouldn't want, that's a little scary.

[Shine]

6. We've been considering getting Tivo, but my hubby and I watch

so little TV, it hardly seems worth it. In fact, to make it worth it, we'd have to watch more, which isn't very appealing. It's my kids who watch the TV, especially over the weekends. During the week, they're limited to one half hour, EACH. That's it.

Regarding McDonald's, we never eat there, either. Have you ever seen the movie "Supersize Me!"? I'll never eat there again, after watching that movie. Yuck.

[LeftyMom]

9. Yeah I've seen it

I wouldn't eat there anyhow, but that was really quite gross.

[miss_american_pie]

5. I make mine watch Noggin

no commercials, just a less annoying moose.

[Shine]

7. What's "Noggin"?

:shrug:

Is it a public television thing? Never heard of it.

Welcome to DU, btw, miss_american_pie!!
:hi:
Shine

[miss_american_pie]

13. Thanks

It's a cable channel. Lots of educational shows and no commercials.
Thanks for the welcome.

:hi:

[Shine]

14. You're welcome!

I see you're in PA. We used to live in Slippery Rock, many years ago.
I still remember the gorgeous colors in the fall....

I have a sister living in Polk, PA.

:hi:

[eyesroll]

10. As soon as my BF heard his 3-year-old say "I wish I had those toys,"

he began muting, or, even better, pausing the DVR for three minutes and then fast-forwarding through the commercials.

It's amazing the crap that they peddle during Dora the Explorer...it seems that there's less McDonald's, cereal and candy, and more toys that light up and beep, than there was when I was a kid. I suppose expensive toys are better than junk food, but still.

[Shine]

11. Yeah, it's over the top, isn't it?

sometimes those commercials are so fast-moving and over-stimulating, I feel like I'm gonna go into an epileptic seizure watching them. It literally feels like they're brainwashing us.

And that's exactly what they're doing imo. :thumbsdown:

Muting helps to prevent SOME of the brainwashing, at least.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. I think your reason is sensible. At first, I was going to flame you

for giving commericals power over your children (thinking that you made them mute them so that they would not be suckered into wanting things, thuis giving the commercials even more power than they already have).

But since you mute them because they're loud and obnoxious, that's fine. I'm with you on that one. Hate the damn things.

They should make a law that commercials have to be at the same sound level as the show you're watching.

[Shine]

15. I agree with you on the law idea. The loudness factor is so obnoxious.

I guess it makes the brainwashing that much more "effective".

Yeah, whatever. :eyes:

[Midlodemocrat]

16. My husband always mutes the commercials.

I used to be in marketing/advertising, so I like them, but he hates them.

That is why we have more than one tv. Because I would have killed him a long time ago.

[Shine]

17. Hey, I used to be in advertising sales, ironically enough!

But I worked in PRINT display ads, not TV or radio, for what it's worth...

:hi:

Yeah, we got more than one TV in our house, too.

[realisticphish]

18. simple solution:

don't watch commercial television. when i was a kid, basically all we watched was PBS. We didn't get satellite until i was 16

[dpbrown]

19. I mute them for myself

Kid's too little to mute anything.

[auntAgonist]

20. we don't have cable anymore but when we did and we'd

watch tv (don't do that anymore either) my HUSBAND would make me mute the commercials. HE hates them :rofl:

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