Despite my best efforts to shield my kids from the telethon, I failed. While running around taking care of household duties (and not making my kids slave away), one of our aides tried to get the DVD player working so that the kids could watch a movie. Our aide accidentally changed the TV channel rather than the input, and the over the air signal of the telethon appeared. I picked that opportune moment to ask the aide to help me with something, and neither of us realized that the movie was not playing.
I discovered this horror when my 12 year old came up to me and said “I can’t watch that” which is what she says when she doesn’t want to watch something (you know, when the news appears at the end of her Tivo’d show). I returned to the living room to discover my 8 year old staring at the tv with her mouth agape and her tongue hanging out. It’s the same look I’ve seen on young adolescents when they stumble upon a naked people channel. I quickly changed the tv input and got the movie going.
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