Renaissance Dad: Family TV Do they still have Saturday morning cartoons? I’m asking because it’s Saturday and for the last several hours my kids have been staring at their iPads watching YouTube videos, the silence broken only by the sounds of snacking. You’d be wrong if you’re thinking I’m going to go off on a typical rant about how TV has changed and when I was a kid we had one TV and no remote control and you had to watch whatever came on. This is well-trodden material. My kids can’t wrap their heads around the concept of television in the 1980s. To this day, if my wife and I are watching a rerun of “Friends” and we explain that we can’t fast-forward the commercials because “this show is on TV right now” our bewildered offspring will ask, “You mean this is happening now?” Yes, Ross and Rachel are currently on a break. Right now. I’d say that we have no idea what they’re watching on YouTube, but they insist on telling us. For our daughter, it’s a steady diet of videos of perky children making slime and, even worse, over-enthusiastic moms playing with toys and making crafts. It’s really a bad influence because after watching these amphetamine-fueled women create an elaborate 14-step craft project that
JON KILE
By Jon Kile
requires pulling a permit from the city, our daughter turns to us hoping to find the same wide-eyed excitement. Sweetie, we’re a year into a pandemic and that woman is insane. Our son has gravitated to gaming videos (you know, watching adults
play video games), as well as the latest offerings in adolescent comedy. This is big business. “Dad, did you know DanTDM has 40 million subscribers?” “Dad, this week Mr. Beast is giving away a Tesla.” Apparently Mr. Beast, a sleepy-eyed 20-something with a crew of mouth-breath-
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