TV and Natural Parenting
While watching Gilmore Girls the other day I was floored that not only did one of the characters, Liz (Luke's sister), have a home birth with a doula ~ but they named their daughter "Doula"! It came as such a surprise that something so natural and normal was FINALLY on television!
Why is it that the natural lifestyle is so rarely portrayed on television?
Why are there no TV mothers who cloth diaper? Why are there no TV mothers who question convenience items and disposable products? Is this representative of our generation or is it just because the wahms (who generally are the ones making the reuseable items) can not afford product placements the way walmart and huggies can?
Why does it take movies such as "Super Size Me" and "An Inconvenient Truth" to raise awareness about such crucial topics as health and global awareness? Aren't these topics that should be discussed so much more often on television as well and brought into mainstream consciousness?
I've been struggling to come up with more examples of the medium of television being used to influence consumers to reuse.. recycle.. reinvent.. and coming up pretty emptyhanded.
Have I ever seen a baby carried in a sling on television? Have I ever seen a mom make their own baby food? Don't we all wonder where exactly Emma was while Rachel was sitting at the coffee shop or hanging out at Monicas?!
What values are we really teaching on television to our kids, our community, and ourselves?
More importantly- how can we change them? How can we see cloth diapers on TV babies? How can we hear TV moms and dads discussing the pros and cons of vaccination? When will we see a cosleeper or an amby hanging in a new TV parents house?
Isn't it our time?
Why is it that the natural lifestyle is so rarely portrayed on television?
Why are there no TV mothers who cloth diaper? Why are there no TV mothers who question convenience items and disposable products? Is this representative of our generation or is it just because the wahms (who generally are the ones making the reuseable items) can not afford product placements the way walmart and huggies can?
Why does it take movies such as "Super Size Me" and "An Inconvenient Truth" to raise awareness about such crucial topics as health and global awareness? Aren't these topics that should be discussed so much more often on television as well and brought into mainstream consciousness?
I've been struggling to come up with more examples of the medium of television being used to influence consumers to reuse.. recycle.. reinvent.. and coming up pretty emptyhanded.
Have I ever seen a baby carried in a sling on television? Have I ever seen a mom make their own baby food? Don't we all wonder where exactly Emma was while Rachel was sitting at the coffee shop or hanging out at Monicas?!
What values are we really teaching on television to our kids, our community, and ourselves?
More importantly- how can we change them? How can we see cloth diapers on TV babies? How can we hear TV moms and dads discussing the pros and cons of vaccination? When will we see a cosleeper or an amby hanging in a new TV parents house?
Isn't it our time?
posted by www.frunchymama.com at
10:50 AM
2 Comments:
I love this post! It is too often true. We do occasionally see a natural type on TV...but, she is portrayed as odd or out-of-touch….a very crunchy type. Where the reality is that there are lots of us, not quite crunchy types out there that happily combine a mainstream lifestyle with natural parenting. Maybe you are right…Wal-Mart has more money than Whole Foods…but perhaps not for long!
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M, at 10:08 PM
Actually, on "What about Brian" Deena and her ex were co-sleepers (I cant think of his name right now).
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Anonymous, at 5:34 PM
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