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 loved the summer holidays and watching Why Don't You? and Robinson Crusoe!

3 years ago I was quite seriously illon holiday in wales. We spent 3 days not moving and watching tv. All 3 Indiana jones movies, the entire LOTR series and some idiotic daytime rubbish were devoured and the kids remember it fondly, as one of the greatest holidays.

The merest hint of the 'Robinson Crusoe' theme music sends me back to a wonderful, carefree time of endless summer days and cucumber sandwiches.

But I can't remember a single thing anyone has said to me on a day out. Kids remember all kinds of stuff from their childhoods, all jumbled up together in a jigsaw of feelings and sounds and smells and tastes and little bits of this and that. And TV is part of it, as is days out, picnics in the garden and holidays.

I have loads of nostalgia for watching kids TV when I was younger.

Getting up at 6am and watching gummy bears until my parents woke up! Watching the Planet of the Apes tv series with my dad on a Sunday afternoon before roast dinner... Good times! Just as good memories as playing 50/50 at the rec with my friends.

Watching Aladdin (over&over) asa kid was the best thing I did!

You'll always feel guilty about something, it's a wasted emotion.

In other words, the meme is BS

Thunder cats, Raggydolls, She-Rah and He-Man, and Popeye just before bed. The awesomeness that was The Fonz on Happy days or loving Gentle Ben and Flipper and the hating of Nasty Nellie on Little House on the Prairie.

Then there was watching my first horror film with mum and dad (The Blob)..

Yup. I remember tv fondly! I try to get my kids to enjoy it with me now but it's all YouTube vloggers and Minecraft. Boring! 😂

Saturday mornings were Animals of Farthing Wood time.

Saturday evenings were Blind Date, Gladiators and the Generation Game.

Ok Happy so if you take them to the park every day and they've had two days watching TV they are probably enjoying a wee change and are not going to be in the least damaged by it.

Give yourself a mental slap 😆 For being silly and I hope you feel better soon!

Ahhh parenting memes - there to spread guilt and feelings of inadequacy all over the world. ;)

As BlueberryPuffin said, it's BS.

Hope you feel better soon x

My son is loving having an hour of TV in the morning instead of having to rush to school instead
As long as you other things as well ( if you are able) then it's fine
He's watching TV again now while I "clean" but we've done plenty today and will be taking the dog out later so it's fine

I just feel sorry for kids who will never experience the joy of Pugwall and Pugwall's Summer and pretending to be in the Orange Organics!!

Fb Inspiration quotes are a load of bollocks.

I have an aunt who over uses them and the rest of the family are just

Some of these are very funny

pisstaking inspirational quotes

I remember LOADS of best days of television...and best moments.

Why Don't You on a saturday morning filled me with JOY!

The Children of Green Knowe introduced me to the wonderful world of mystery and English ghosts.

The Enchanted Castle introduced me to E Nesbitt and the horror of the Ugly Wuglies!

The theme tune to the TV version of The Famous Five STILL fills me with wonder.

What about Lassie and Champion the Wonder Horse...and BOD!

Load of old cobblers that post.

Have many fantastic memories watching tv when a kid.
I am also making memories of watching tv with mine.

Still leaves time for trips out, holidays and them then raking outside with friends. All those cringy memes give me The boak.

One of my favourite childhood memories is going to the video shop (yes I'm old) and - - fighting over - - choosing a video and having a movie night. Also Saturday morning tv and the broom cupboard after school. That meme is a load of rubbish (and I also remember collecting frog spawn, picnics by the river etc so I'm not completely TV obsessed!)

I'm ill today to, my dc's don't watch tv, instead they are glued to you tube whilst I lie on the sofa watching American comedy. I feel sad that they don't enjoy the things/films I watched as a child, tv was pretty good in the 80's. Instead they are watching people open kinder eggs and amazon parcels on youtube.

And it's ok to have a couple tv days, your ill. I don't really see another option, I'm a single mum so the dc's are stuck in as I'm too ill to take them out, they will survive a couple lazy days.

Some of my DCs happiest holiday memories are of rainy afternoons when the whole family would pile onto the settee and work our way through the Buffy box sets. Usually with a box of Quality Street or Malteasers.

I remember sitting on my bean bag in front of the telly (B&W of course) in my orange pajamas and yellow and orange flowered dressing gown with the fire roaring and watching Are You Being Served and It Ain't Half Hot Mum and choking myself giggling and my parents saying 'you don't even understand those jokes' and me saying 'of course I do' and then watching again as an adult and realising that I really didn't. Fawlty Towers, Bananaman, the Goodies ... so many great memories.

Bullshit. I have some very happy memories of watching TV as a kid. It's all part of a happy balanced upbringing.

Don't feel any guilt OP. Those memes are so fucking sentimental and irritating anyway.

Ok - and Magic Roundabout anyone? The Wombles?

I don't think my kids remember any of the many many zoo trips/walks in the woods/beach days that we did. ungrateful beasts. Anyway I didn't do it to make memories - we did it to pass the time in a way that didn't drive us insane.

I ate a sausage sandwich the other day and was immediately transported back to sitting with mum and dad watching wanderly wagon - very happy memory.

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

Oh yes, me too. Television isn't the devil. Some of my most evocative childhood memories are of atmospheric, fascinating TV programmes.

I just feel sorry for kids who will never experience the joy of Pugwall and Pugwall's Summer and pretending to be in the Orange Organics!!

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