I'm tired of the marketing machine in general. Disney or otherwise. This is why I don't have cable. Best move I ever made. At first you might think, what will we do to unwind after the day? I don't mind if my kids watch tv. It's on before breakfast, after lunch and a night time show, more if my husband wants to watch a show, he loves tv.
We get netflix. Plus tons of shows are available online. We rent a lot of shows from the library. We own over 200 dvd's. We buy them used at garage sales, never more than $4 bucks each. SO, there's plenty to watch when we want to watch, but I can control everything my kids watch.
We house sat for our neighbors a while ago. We had dinner there and watched tv. At the end of the night we realized something interesting. All the shows we watched that we liked, we'd already seen before. (most amazing cop chases, a show about cats, some reality shows) We had seem them all over 2 years ago when we had cable. Plus, my son wanted pretty much everything he saw on there. Then two interesting things happened. We turned on ABC Family. WOW> If two teenage girls making out is a family show, no thanks. Also, we were watching 'survivor' at 7pm, and it had commercial breaks that included really scary movies. I don't want my kids to see that!
Oh and the commercials in general, so flashy, so needy, so loud, yeah, I don't miss cable.
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