According to The Smart TV Alliance, kid's TV viewing goes up 150 percent in the summer. Now, keeping in mind that the Smart TV Alliance would never actually tell you to turn the damn thing off, because they are, the Smart TV Alliance, not the Smart Book Alliance, or the Smart Go Play Outside Alliance, they're asking for hints of how you get your kids to watch better TV. I'm suggesting making the kids watch 24 straight hours of Hannah Montana with their eyes wedged open like Alex in A Clockwork Orange so that they develop a natural aversion to stupidity.
"How do you like your son's school?" one of the other gomoms asked me last night. I failed to come up with an intelligent answer. Whatever the school is as an institution gets passed through the filter of my son's behavior before it comes to me. Not only am I not sure what kinds of expectations I should have of an elementary school, I can't tell if the blame for any unmet expectations should fall on the place or my kid.
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