TV Wars . . .

Living with an almost 12 year old boy and a 13 and half year old girl poses many challenges. One of the biggest issues we face is control of the TV. This confuses me too because we have two large TV’s in our home. One is in the living room and is 55” and the other is up stairs at 62”. The one upstairs is in a media room and this room can be completely shut off from the rest of the house so you go up there an turn the darn thing up as loud as you like. Regardless, the TV in the down stairs living area always seems to be the “golden child”. I rarely get involved in the “what are we going to watch” discussions because I honestly do not watch that much TV. There are certain times I exercise my mommy rights and take control of the remote but that typically involves a Cowboy football game (Dallas or OSU) or the Rangers playing. When the arguments break out on who gets to decide and I suggest someone go upstairs and watch their show or even go lay in my bed and relax but I get shot down with responses of “this TV is bigger” or I like the couch down here better. Well, the TV upstairs is in all actuality bigger than the one down stairs and need I remind you we nicknamed the couch upstairs the “comfy couch” for a reason. But the battles rage on . . . .


Last night I decided to settle down in my room and watch the Ranger game because when I walked through the living room the kids were both watching the same show and everyone seemed at peace. So, I threw the dogs into bed and we snuggled down to watch the game. Then the oddest thing occurred . . . within10 minutes Andrew wanders into my room and decides to sit on the foot of the bed and watch the game. Within the next 5 minutes Madison has claimed the passenger side of the bed. I thought she got bored a few minutes in because she got up and left . . . but promptly returned with the laptop in hand. So for the next 3 hours we all watched the game, in my room on the smallest TV in the house . . . I just don’t get it.