Do You Let Kids Watch

[Candy]

I hate SpongeBob, I walked by the other day and he said "lets touch hard things softly". WTF is that about. No way my kids would be watching that.

[MrsSteinel'sHouse]

Nope. I find sponge bob rude. My littles don't watch TV here at all.

[SSWonders]

On the rare occasion that the tv is one in dc, it might be right before lunch if they are particularly rambunctious and I need them to settle down, educational tv only, or a special holiday movie. I love those myself.

[craftymissbeth]

I personally love spongebob... but I don't let the kids watch it. That show has a LOT of innuendos and some downright inappropriate content. But I love to watch it myself every once in awhile for some mind numbing entertainment

[Unregistered]

I strongly dislike spongebob! My children have never watched it and I won't show it here. There was a "study" done awhile ago about the effects of spongebob and other fasted paced shows on young children.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/DC-Study-Says-SpongeBob-Bad-For-Kids-Mental-Function-129641993.html

It's pretty interesting.

[Josiegirl]

Another one I detest is Rugrats. Nope, have never allowed tv like that here. The kids do watch Wiggles, Dora, Barney, but even then it's rarely. They're little. There's so much more for them to be doing here. I'm almost anti-tv anyways. It's a very passive activity, except they do love dancing to the Wiggles.

[coolconfidentme]

We don't have a TV in our daycare.

[Scout]

My own kids watch it, I don't find anything wrong with it, Now Family Guy is another story!

[Cradle2crayons]

The rare tv time my kids get is selected from the roku. Usually something like leap pad alphabet etc. sometimes Dora.

I don't mind watching spongebob and my own kids watch it sometimes.

[momofboys]

I personally love spongebob... but I don't let the kids watch it. That show has a LOT of innuendos and some downright inappropriate content. But I love to watch it myself every once in awhile for some mind numbing entertainment

hehe! Me too! My daycare kids don't watch but I have older kids (12 & 10) of my own that watch sometimes outside of daycare hours. It is funny!

[Willow]

I loathe Spongebob, and the study proving how detrimental it specifically is to the health and well being of kids solidified that gut feeling for me.

PBS is all I will have on on occassion during daycare, and my kids prefer documentary/real life type stuff. They rarely watch any cartoon type shows aside from the occassional Disney/Pixar movie.

[countrymom]

Noooooo---they did a study on kids who watch alot of spongebob start to talk like him (not sentences) but imatating his voice and the way he pronounces words. Well, my niece who my sister would let her watch all the spongebob in the word now has to go for speech.

[KDC]

Nope...not here. I have a kid music that's on a lot throughout the day and the spongebob theme song is on the playlist. It's funny how it takes awhile for the new kids to stop what they're doing and look for the TV to be on.

I allow Disney JR. or PBS/Sprout shows. I have a 3 yr. old that calls them 'baby' shows (he's into the TMNT and Star wars/super heroes). It's only on for drop-off's for about 1 hr. There may be a 1/2 hour show if they are good throughout the day and after picking up all the toys before departure (maybe 1x a week). They would just rather play with each other.

[Candy]

I do rugrats the only episode i would cut is the one where there is cursing. You cant here it but kids always ask what did she say.

[Blackcat31]

NO TV here either.

What kids watch at home is up to the parents.

It's not my job to monitor/censor or filter their program choices.