Today, I don’t really know what to write about. I could write about the Superbowl, the half-time show, and the commercials because that’s what most people will be talking about today—but the truth is I didn’t watch it. I haven’t really watched a football game, the Superbowl included, since my dad passed away. On Sundays growing up we used to watch some football, and would always watch the Superbowl. Since the I have not really been that interested in it. I really couldn’t tell you many of the players in the game so why give the sport my time.
I could write about Valentine’s Day, but I have never been one to celebrate this commercialized holiday so that doesn’t seem worth a post either. Johnny and I agreed to exchange cards so we will do that this morning. The girls will bring cards to their classes today. We worked on fill out their cards together for 15 minutes yesterday before they abandoned ship and I was left to finish writing these. Maybe, I could write about the Olympics—because I at least watched a few events from that on my plane ride home from Arkansas. I watched some speed skating and some snowboard cross—both sports I have never participated in and do not have any breadth or depth of knowledge of. I arrived home from Arkansas at one on Saturday morning, and Izzy was still awake when I got home (nobody else was, just my three-year-old). I pulled her iPad from her and she was probably not excited to have me back as I instantly had her go to bed. I went to bed quickly after that and then Zoey was up by 6:00 a.m. that day. She, at least, was excited to have me back home as she snuggled up with me instantly pressing her head into my head. Izzy was more excited, than she was at 1:00 a.m., when she woke up around 8:00 a.m. Izzy was probably watching the iPad from 7:30 p.m. until 1:00 a.m. when I got home. That’s a lot of screen time! She watches some interesting Youtube shows: “Jannie”, “Steve and Maggie”, “The Tannerites”, “Blippi”, “Doll Time”, “The Engineering Family”, “Ellie Sparkles, and “Lizzy and Savannah”. None of these shows are the Sesame Street or Wiggles-like educational programming that are geared towards toddlers. Izzy has not watched a single Disney movie or episode of a Disney show—but needs to own all the Disney princess gear. She will talk like she knows these characters, but her knowledge is just from how they are portrayed and thought of in the above Youtube shows. For someone that is not very commercialized myself, I can’t say my daughter, Izzy, is the same. She is all about the commercialization and the characters and toys that are advertised in each of the above Youtube shows. She would watch these programs from the moment she wakes up until bed, if we let her; we don’t, but that 5.5 hour stretch she got away with on Friday night into Saturday morning speaks to how addictive these programs are to her and her brain’s processing. I know the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends one hour or less of screen time for children age 2-5. I also know that Izzy used up all her weekly screen time in one night given this recommendation. We will be doing a lot of play in the next few days to reduce her unhealthy screen time habit.
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