One of the wonderful things about technology, is that it allows for greater ease of living. It used to be that parents would send their kids outside to play, allowing the parents time to themselves. This of course posed a threat to the validity of parenting skills when children wound up missing, hit by cars, stung by bees, caught colds, stepped in an ant pile, fell in dirt, laughed too much, used their imaginations, etc. With all of these terrible things happening, parents began to fear for the safety of their parenting image among their peers. Luckily, the birth of cable television came about, and those fears are virtually non-existent anymore.
Teaching children to speak, socialize, recognize colors and animals or foods, is all-too complicated and time consuming. This is why God created television.
(Well, he may not have created it directly, but he does work in mysterious ways, and I’m pretty sure he did it vicariously through us.)
Our time as adults is far too precious to be throwing it away on children, so all that is needed anymore is a television (preferably Hi-Def), a digital cable box with Digital Video Recording capabilities, and a baggie full of Cheerios.
Just turn on the TV, either flip to or play a favorite mesmerizing cartoon that may teach them such important skills as English as a second language, and go off to do whatever you must do, because you are now, if only temporarily, free from the savage grip of the curious and needy child!
Congratulations!
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