Comments on: Life before and after kids: Your DVR Recordings

By: Ray Cromwell

Ray Cromwell — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:06:55 +0000

So true, I’ll add that I can’t even watch TV anymore, so I end up watching my few favorite shows (BSG, Heroes, etc) online at my PC. :(

My Tivo looks like this:
Curious George
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
Sesame Street
Go, Diego, Go!
Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
Raggs
Wiggles
Fruity Pie

I can’t wait till my kids are old enough to watch reruns of Thundercats, Voltron, Transformers, and Robotron with me. :)

My movie going life has been reduced to seeing movies every weekend in the Theater to seeing Wall-E, Kung Fu Panda, and the few family movies.

By: James Strachan

James Strachan — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:05:00 +0000

http://www.uptoten.com/ is awesome – as I can let my 19 month old watch the songs, while I read blogs & check up on twitter :)

Other than that, its In The Night Garden – with Derek Jacobi doing the voice over and singing. Great music – and nice trippy opening credits :)

By: priisholm

priisholm — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:34:20 +0000

Our tv set is out of order ATM, but after an initial state of panic, despair and cold turkey our two boys, Carl (8) and Theo (5) have found other ways to waste time – surfing websites like lego.com or playing games on their Ubuntu box, head-to-head Mario Bros on their Nintendo DS’, playing with their Lego stuff or even old-school pastime like drawing, and they only *really* miss the tv on Friday nights around Disney hours.
Outside this momentary tv-less life, they pretty much rule the remote whenever the tube is on, but my wife and I don’t really watch that much tv, so there’s no genuine fight for it anyway, except when we think they’ve had enough.
When it comes to going to the movies, though, the before/after effect is definitely *very* present: I used to go out and watch sci-fi and independent movies on a regular basis, but now I hardly ever get to watch anything but kids movies. Don’t get me wrong; I really enjoy going out with the boys and Wall-e last weekend (it only just came up in Denmark where we live) was a blast, but I feel completely out of touch when friends or colleagues without kids talk about the latest cinematics. In 8-10 years they’ll be old enough to go see some of the movies *I’d* choose, but then they’ll be embarrassed to go with their old man. The joys of parenthood…