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My daughter is quite the talker. She will carry on a conversation with you with the vocabulary of a 7 or 8 year old, and she is only 26 months old. Since she began talking I have coined the term "Reesie-isms" ... this meaning little things that she comes up with seemingly "out of the blue." About a month ago, after naptime, she came to her door, and said "Hey, Mom, I'm awake and I'm stupid." I just stood there... can I laugh, do I scold her for using the word... no, I held it all back, and simply said "Reese you are very smart." She responded, "DONT SAY THAT MOM! NO I AM NOT! I AM VERY STUPID." Obviously she has no clue to the meaning of the word, but she repeated the phrase "Im stupid" for about a week, and I never could pin point where it came from. Just yesterday, however, it came to me. My kids are allowed to watch TV or a Movie after breakfast, while I clean up a bit, but after naptime, the TV goes off. Naptime for Reese typically means play by herself in her room time. I sometimes leave the TV on while they are in their rooms for naps, but usually turn it to the news, etc. That day, I remember, I did not... the same goes for yesterday. At the time they take their nap, Spongebob comes on. After Reeses nap, she looked at me and said "Mom, I hate you. I hate all of you people. You make me sick. I never want to see your face her again." "Hmmm," I thought. Evidently she has been listening to the TV when I leave it on, and she absorbs every word she hears. What kills me is that this is a child's cartoon... what kind of idiot wrote that crap for CHILDREN? I understand that the content may be more suitable for older children, but it comes on early in the day. That is the reason my kids cant watch TV after nap, the shows are more "grown up" after about lunch time. ... Is it just me that has a huge problem with this? Maybe I am overreacting...
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i agree with you. I have a6 year old that like to watch that stuff but I also have 2 smaller girls. 2 1/2 and a 20 month old. And I refuse to let them watch that. I'm not sure where you live but I live in Maryland and they have a channel for younger children called PBS. It plays nothing but sesame street, Barney,Curious George. And shows of that nature and I fell much better knowing they are not watching that stuff. And if my son wants to watch it he knows he must go in his room and shut his door and is to keep the volume at an approprtiate level so the girls may not hear. And this has worked for me so far. Hope this helps.
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My boys are into the cartoons called "Max and Ruby", "The Backyardigans", and of course "Barney". So far I have not seen anything negative about them, but you are right about Spongebob. They do tend to show mess on there that in my opinion, a young child should not see. I remember one episode where he poured bubbles in his own eyes to make some fish children laugh, immediately my 3 year old wanted his bubbles. It is sad what is shown on air this day and time.
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I have a two year old that repeats everything. He speaks very clearly and I am careful about what I let him hear. Well he stays in a home daycare bc I work 24 hour shifts. My sitter was sick and for a couple of shifts I left him with a friend's mom. I picked him up and he kept repeating. "Jason, you are NOT the father." I had to laugh a little, but really it wasn't too funny that he had been watching Maurry.
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Hahaha... that is too funny. I think he and my daughter would get along great. Im still laughing.
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I have a two year old and he is just starting to repeat things. I must say that he is kinda slow on the speech level. He had a pacifier until he was 21 months old that he carried day and night! Before my daughter was born I took it and he's been off to the races ever since! I agree that a majority of cartoons that are shown aren't geared toward children but actually adults and teens. My kids father doesn't seem to understand that. I came home from work the other night and he had my son and daughter watching "the family guy" of all things! I was floored. When I asked him why he looked stupid and say it's a cartoon. Poor idiot!
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My son is pretty slow with speech as well. He is one and just says "Hey" and "Ta-Da!"... But you wonder what his little brain is absorbing that he isnt able to spit right back at you.
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I cannot stand Spongebob, I let JT watch only the Disney channel and the movies he has. ~shelly&jt~
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Spongebob is THEEEEE most retarded show on earth...however, DH and the girls like it. DH works nights (lately 6 days a week), so the girls rarely get to see him. When he does get a night off, he comes home, sleeps a few hours then watches Spongebob with them. They also watch Scooby Doo (another one I can't stand). I do have to admit that the TV is on most of the day, but sometimes it's just background noise.

What the kids deam as funny, we see as dumb...I'm sure it was the same way when we were growing up. I remember watching HR Puffinstuff (is that what it was called??) and other shows of the like and I swear those people who made those shows were on acid.

Each generation has their own thing, and this one happens to be Spongebob. The kids will say what they will, but it's up to us to tell them if it's inappropriate or not. Personally, my kids hear and see worse things when DH and I are watching football!!
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