of course i know that a 3 year old has no business watching mtv!...i'm not saying she is hanging out with the older siblings...i am saying she might be friends with someone who has an older sibling...who watches mtv
let me try to say this again...joni's quote did not say that her granddaughter was watching mtv, but that she was being influenced by it...however, everyone jumped to the conclusion that this meant the granddaughter was watching mtv...i did not come to that conclusion at all... i thought perhaps the granddaughter has a friend & that friend has older siblings & those older siblings watch mtv (not the younger sibling & not the granddaughter)...those older siblings then imitate the mtv stuff...the younger sibling who has NOT watched the mtv but who has watched their older sibling, learns these crotch moves...this younger sibling then does the crotch move when playing with the granddaughter & that is how the granddaughter learns the stuff....phew.. i was a very protective parent (no tv) but found that my son picked up stuff in this way all the time...from friends who had older siblings... me **she might be hanging out with kids whose older siblings watch MTV & do the crotch grab...correct me if i am wrong but this statement led someone here to assume that the child's mother was lame for letting her watch mtv? whoa...big leaps of assumptions going on here!** bob Kate, the girl is THREE! What if she were hanging out with "older siblings" who were watching a porno movie? I'm not singling out Kilauren, I'm saying that a 3-year-old has no business watching MTV, and if she is, then the parents are not doing their job, whether Daisy's sitting on her lap watching it or whether Kilauren has turned her over to whoever to babysit. It's bad parenting in my book (but don't get me wrong, it's very common parenting). Where's Julie Z. Webb when you need her? ;~)
