The Day Care Cinema

When David came home from his school a couple of weeks ago, excited that he'd watched Aladdin, it shocked Nataliya and myself. David currently only goes to day care three days a week which comes out to nine hours a week. We don't expect or want him to watch television at day care. We don't let him watch television at home, so why are we paying hundreds of dollars a month for someone else to let him watch TV. Television is the easy way to take care of a toddler. We could do this ourselves and save loads of money.

I went to the school and questioned one of the teachers regarding this. The excuse was that the temperatures had been excessively high (true) and they passed a television around to all the classes as a substitute for the usual outside activity. I raised my concern and requested that television be omitted from their schedule, or at least wait until the afternoon when David wouldn't be able to watch.

A week passed and we heard nothing from David regarding television.

Then today, David starts singing a song that I didn't recognize, but Nataliya did. It was from a children's cartoon called Dora The Explorer. Nataliya asked David where he watched Dora, and he quickly replied 'school.' sigh...

Perhaps it's time to look for another 'school'...