Putting the telly on when your child has visitors

[emkana]

Took my dd's to the house of my dd1's school friend today for a playdate - the younger sister is also the same age as my dd2.

We hadn't been there 10 mins when the two sisters we were visiting started discussing which DVD they wanted to watch. When they had made their choice the mum promptly put that DVD on.

After that the girls still played with my daughters, but the TV was a distraction and I just didn't understand it why it had to be put on in the first place? IMO it's rude and totally wrong timing, I would always say to my dd's that they could watch something when their visitors are gone, but that with visitors there they should play and not be distracted.

Am I alone in this?

Hey I never said I turned off someone else's tv! Did I?

I would really love one of \link{http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php\these} though.

That looks great. I wonder if you can wander along the street doing it through peoples windows. Wouldn't that be good?

can I ask a question? is radio 4 rude? I have it on so much that I'm not actually sure if I turn it off when people are here or not. I think I probably do. But everyone knows radio 4 isn't actually for listening to. It's just there to sound nice. (did someone say something about class...)

...except for the Today programme which is there for shouting at while you hang out the laundry

how can you possibly be hanging out laundry before 9 am? Surely that's not allowed?

I cheat and put it on overnight to hang out before breakfast
(I know no-one cares but was just checking nobody mistook me for some sort of domestic goddess)