My son has good taste

It is inevitable, as a parent, that you let your kid watch some kind of TV program (though it is now more likely to be seen on an iPad).  I think there is a case to be made that NOT doing that is bad for them.  After all, what are they supposed to do on long car rides when their infernal car seats are too constraining to even let them look around?  

So over the past two years I have been very careful about letting him watch stuff.  Dinosaur Train, Star Wars cartoons (censored when necessary), Justice League, Wild Kratts.  They are all something he watches and I think they are all high quality entertainment.  Stories carry over from one episode to the other.  There are real characters and they have traits developed over time by experiences.  They are, in short, a huge departure from the 22 minute advertisements of my youth, He-man, GI Joe, and Transformers, all of which were developed after the FCC lifted restrictions on content in children's programming allowing for more direct advertisements, such as full length shows that were really product placements.  

This past weekend, as the winter wears on, we decided to go see a movie in the movie theater.  The movie was Spongebob Squarepants.  And it was wretched.  Like kill myself by choking on popcorn wretched.  As we watched, I knew in the first five minutes, that it was not going to be a Pixar movie, but surprisingly I knew it was film diarherra in the same time frame.  It was awful.  But it was for Isaac so I sat there and watched quietly.  Its a parent's duty.

But when we got out of the theater, Isaac had moved on to other things.  He did not quote the movie, he did not talk about the movie, he didn't even say he liked the movie.  It was terrible and he didn't like it.  Its lack of plot (utter lack of plot) drove him nuts as he kept asking "Is this the end?" or "Who is that?"  Spongebob came and went in a blink of an eye.  He just didn't care for it.  

So as a snob, I am proud of my son.  He saw dreck and thought that's what it was.  And he loves the good stuff--Star Wars, Paul Dini's groundbreaking super hero cartoons, and PBS's high brow kids programming.  I can be a little less worried--Isaac has good taste.