Too much TV?

Okay when we first were planning our family and knowing that we were adopting children that were already 1 and 3 we had the great TV debate. How much TV is too much? Well surely educational programs are fine and a little here and there won't hurt. We knew we didn't want to use the TV as a babysitter and that TV time would be limited its the best way.

Here is the problem my husband and I are TV junkies. I admit it. I love TV. I love movies. I need visual entertainment from the little/big box in my living room.

So as the months and years go by we find ourselves with the TV on more and more. I am not proud, but its how it has become. Now I don't realize it too often, but last night I realized that we have been watching it more then usual.

After dinner when I turned the TV on my daughter (almost 4) asks me what we are going to watch. I inform her that its almost time for American Idol but nothing is on right now. Her next question is the one that made me laugh and realize how much TV we watch.

"Mom is that the singing show, the dancing show, or the house show?" Yep without fail we seem to watch American Idol, Dancing with the stars or Dance War, and Extreme Makeover Home edition.

Well I won't chalk this up to failure as a parent and I still have time to redeem my children from a life of being couch potatoes. It's March the wind is blowing and we have kites. Let's go fly those kites.