To hate but still be guilt tripped by stuff like this..

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We are having a couple of TV days as I have been ill and then I see this picture on Facebook

Aibu to hate it but still feel the guilt...

I actually remember fondly spending time in front of the tv as a child :D .

And I am not being sarcastic.

Why do you have guilt?

You're ill, you aren't neglectful.

Do you regularly play with your kids, take them to the park, take them in day trips?

If the answer is yes, then there's no need for guilt.

If the answer is no switch off the TV and do more stuff with them once you are well.

No need for guilt.

I've got countless memories of tv shows from when I was a kid, and so have my friends. Shared culture is a bonding experience. Standing in the garden, not so much.

As a dm of several adult dc they do remember fondly the times we have had a good film and popcorn all piled onto the sofa!!
They also remember times I have been so ill with migraine they have cuddled me when really young while watching Disney films one after another.

It's not just about spending time and money away from home. .

So do I @bunny - watching kids summer TV 📺 Still hate the sanctimonious Facebook stuff

Actually tv was pretty much the best thing ever to me as a child. I loved nothing more than snuggling under a duvet in the sofa on a Saturday and watching a film or gladiators I still watch some of my favourite childhood movies now as an adult. (Home alone anyone?)

Nonsense. I remember loads of great TV as a child, Charlie's Angels for one

Well I remember watching The Little Bits on a Saturday morning before everyone else got up and I had the living room to myself

Fond memories

And yes @ben I normally take them to the park every day. Just feeling ill and stuff like that makes me fee worse

Well that's bollocks. I could work out why I got upset when Bruce died. Then realised it was because I used to watch the generation game with my DGPS, which are lovely memories within an otherwise shite childhood.

Ha ha! My brother and I used to watch batman. My brother and Dad and I used to watch Saturday morning cartoons in our pajamas. I loved those moments. It's true I don't recall a lot of other tv.

Couldn't not could.

Pfft. We did some great things last half term. On return to school the kids had to write about their half term. None of the great stuff was mentioned by my ds. Only the fact his mate came round and they played on the wii and achieved xyz in the game. So I beg to differ!

Load of bollocks. I grew up in foster care so have few memories of a 'proper' happy childhood but I know I used to watch the Two Ronnies with my foster parents and howl like a little monkey at them.

It's perfectly fine for tv to be a part of your children's life. It isn't going to harm them if it's balanced with trips, family mealtimes and other happy memories. Just don't let them watch Peppa Pig because she's fucking odious.

I remember lots of tv from childhood, bagpus as a young child, my older brothers pretending that they were not watching basil brush. Tiswas, knight rider and my first ever Top of the pops, Boney M was number 1.

Some of my best memories of childhood are getting up on a Saturday morning and watching some of my favourite shows wearing my dressing gown.

Don't believe all these "inspirational quotes".

I remember summer hols as a kid - watching Why Don't You & then going outside. Lots of cool memories attached to tv progs. Watched The Red Hand Gang recently & that brought back memories of my (now dead) sister. Loads of things like that. I've got memories of outside stuff too but it all sits in my head, not just the "perfect society-demands" scenarios.
Besides, if you have everything "perfect" then you don't appreciate it!

It's bollocks.

I remember my best day of TV. It was a Saturday night in the later 80s, and it consisted of Anne of Green Gables, then Gladiators, followed by Blind Date.

Loads of happy tv memories! My primary school friend and I still fondly reminisce about Thundercats

I loved Crossroads.. I was 6 but i relished it

weird I know...

Yup!
Thundercats
Willy Fog
Dogtanian

Happy happy memories. In fact I remember being properly annoyed when I got up one Saturday for my cartoon fix to find it was ALL news. Zeebrugge disaster. I was too young to understand but I remember being really annoyed there was no Dogtanian that morning!!

That Facebook post really isn't true. I watched a lot of tv as a kid and whilst I think it's important for children to do other things too tv can provide happy memories of time spent as a family all watching and discussing the same show. I particularly remember watching Life on Earth, but also lots of children's shows.

It can also be quite important to watch the same shows as your peer group in order to feel part of conversations about it. Bake Off and Strictly are essential shows for my daughter to watch and discuss with her friends and Match of the Day for my son.

I actually feel sorry for my DC. Saturday tv used to be awesome. They don't have that now.

My favourite memories as a kid was watching Dragon Ball Z with my brothers.