Comments on: Hurting Others to Protect Yourself Never Works http://hourglass8.com/hurting-others-to-protect-yourself-never-works/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hurting-others-to-protect-yourself-never-works Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Kaobear (James) http://hourglass8.com/hurting-others-to-protect-yourself-never-works/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Kaobear (James) Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:33:59 +0000 http://hourglass8.com/?p=959#comment-279 That my Dear, is precisely the reason that not only do I no watch reality television shows, but I refuse to allow my son to watch them as well. I flick past the UFC fights, the WWE wrestling matches and Jackass shows and he says "Daddy I want to watch that". I calmly turn the channel and explain to him, a six year old mind you, that real people don't act like that and watching it will make him a different person than he is. He usually cocks his head to the side and shrugs like a six year old should, but every now and again, and it makes me so proud, he nods and says something like "Yeah Daddy, those guys always fight, that's not good right." At which point I simply smile and nod and turn it to Jeopardy. That my Dear, is precisely the reason that not only do I no watch reality television shows, but I refuse to allow my son to watch them as well.

I flick past the UFC fights, the WWE wrestling matches and Jackass shows and he says “Daddy I want to watch that”. I calmly turn the channel and explain to him, a six year old mind you, that real people don’t act like that and watching it will make him a different person than he is.

He usually cocks his head to the side and shrugs like a six year old should, but every now and again, and it makes me so proud, he nods and says something like “Yeah Daddy, those guys always fight, that’s not good right.”

At which point I simply smile and nod and turn it to Jeopardy.

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