There is a cable channel called NickJr. If you have kids, you've probably heard of it because it is where Yo Gabba Gabba and Pocoyo live. Kids love Yo Gabba Gabba and Pocoyo.
Anyway, it is a cable TV channel that shows programs for toddlers. It used to do this 24 hours a day - which, frankly, I always thought was excessive - because what toddler watches TV at midnight? Turns out, a lot of them do - as evidenced by the number of mothers freaking out over a new block of programming that is running on this channel from 10pm to 2am. It's called Nick Mom - and it's for drinking, complaining, underachieving mothers like myself. Or so that is what all of the sanctimommies that are bombarding the network with hate mail are saying.
We will continue to speak out with our voices and wallets to Nick and the sponsors. You are out of touch with real parents and families. Get the mommy porn off the kids channel.
Unbelievable the "shit" that's on tv!!! Children don't have the choice to come into the world, you make that decision, and if you think it's a job, maybe you don't deserve children, I too realize its meant to be a joke, but it's stupid none of the less!!
Why so negative? How about posting something cute and sweet? Oh wait this is NickMom, thief of childrens television and pusher of negativity and immorality.
I went to the website to examine the shows, and for the life of me I can't figure out what is so offensive about any of this. No way in hell would I call it porn. No way. Apart from thinking that women talking about their sex lives is porn the other big complaint about this programming, is it cuts into children's programming. Yeah, it does. Between the hours of 10pm and 2am. Why in the hell are your toddlers watching TV between 10pm and 2am?
This is all the little kids have to watch and everytime it comes on my 20 mo old daughter comes running & crying then of course at 10pm there is no other child oriented programming on.
I think that it is funny that Muno on Yo Gabba Gabba looks like a dancing red d**do, but I don't think that this Nickmom garbage is funny at all. The reason I say that is because I can find humor and entertainment in the shows that my child watches and I can be entertained with her. But she can't watch NickMom with me and be entertained, she can't even be exposed to the content. Why put something on that you have to send your child out of the room to watch? You can't exactly send them to their room to watch Nick Jr now can you?
Whatever - to each his own. But has anyone ever heard of a DVD player? Is Nick Jr. the only channel on your television? Also, try handing your toddler a book or some toys. Kids generally like those things.
I'm not trying to be a judgemental jerk here - Lucien watches a little TV, too. But if your parenting skills become unravelled because of a four hour block of time that you can't place your child in front of the TV - you've got some reflecting to do.
Okay - maybe I am being judgemental. You suck. Also, it's election season. I can think of far more worthy petitioning to be doing. Ugh.
I couldn't agree more. These people are morons. What little kid watches television at 10pm? Shouldn't they be in bed. Even the west coast parents are being ridiculous, and I believe this stuff stars earlier out there.
ReplyDeleteI know that things happen and there are probably a few legit reasons why your kid might be up at that hour but don't try to push your needs on the rest of us.
Totally. Unbelievable.
DeletePlease check your facts before you call people morons. The issue with this segment is that it starts @4pm in Hawaii, @6pm in Alaska, and @7pm on the West Coast. Do you want you toddler learning how to "rub it the right way" (actual quote from NickMom show) at 4pm in the afternoon while you're preparing dinner for your family?
Delete@CCC I don't let my kids watch TV all that often, and when I do I ya know, actually check to see what the programming looks like. That is what the channel guide is for.
DeleteThe fact is Nick Jr. doesn't owe anyone anything, and if they are putting this programming on then they probably have reason to believe it will make them money. They don't care about your kids, they care about the almighty dollar. Also, my kids have more important things to be doing than watching television at any of those times,but if I did want to put them in from of the mindless boob tube I would pop in a DVD if nothing suitable was on. So yeah you're a MORON.
It's truly amazing how judgemental some of you are being. The point is Nick Jr is a channel specifically geared towards preschoolers. As adults the last channel we look at for entertainment on is Nick Jr. Besides the shows on Nick Mom are incredibly lame. I'd rather watch Yo Gabba Gabba or Pocoyo than listen to these wanna be comics od horror mom stories. If I wanna share Mom stories, I have friends to do that with. If you live under a rock and don't have cable or if your child goes to bed at what you've decided is a decent hour, than that's you. But don't get mad because other parents don't follow in your "perfect" parental footsteps. Looks like some of you should be watching the preschooler programs to learn some manners!
DeleteThe only times either of my kids have been up this late is because they were asleep and woke up hacking up a lung/high fever-ish/throwing up. I have been known to soothe them with a little late night Sprout because we do not have a DVD player in our bedroom which is where they have most often ended up. Honestly, my kids are not allowed to watch any TV after dinner so I do not get it?! If they cannot sleep for some reason they have the run of their rooms. Their rooms have items like books and toys, and whatever else they can rustle there but no TVs. Frankly, I find Yo Gabba Gabba mildy disturbing and I would not want that to be the last seering image impressed on my small child's impressionable mind right before bed either. But hey... to each his/her own I suppose. This "outcry by mothers" is both lame and weak!
ReplyDeleteIt is mildly disturbing - and totally weird.
DeleteI can't even imagine why this is an issue! I don't have cable so this doesn't affect me whatsoever but my kids did like watching Nick Jr. RARELY are they up during those hours, in which case I'm more likely to read them a story and send them back to bed anyways.. I'm FAR from a sanctomommy (I'm a SCARY!) and my kids watch a lot of tv, but I would not be opposed to late night mommy programming, particularly if its REAL humans, not robot moms... You know the type...
ReplyDelete;) have a good one, lady. LOVE your posts :)
After checking it out on their website, I honestly don't see whats wrong with it. I think these mothers should get a hobby. i recommend reading to their children!
DeleteFor us on the west coast, NickMom does start at 7pm. It is a little early for that kind of programming to be on. We do watch NickJr (however NOT Yo Gabba Gabba... to weird for me), but when NickMom came on, I just turned the TV off. Even though it does start earlier for us, it's not a big deal. There are other ways to entertain your kids.
ReplyDeleteAgreed!
DeleteI live in the West Coast as well. My boys 4 & 2 are allowed two hours of TV prior to bed. I pay an extra $14 a month on my cable so that I can have Nick Jr. and now with this new segment starting at 7pm my boys only get one hour. No sense in paying the extra cost to carry Nick Jr. If NickMom is here, then we can cancel the line-up and save the extra dollars.
DeleteIn regards to the mommy porn that you “guerrilla mom” cannot understand here is my personal incident with NickMom: My 4yr old questions everything and my 2yr old repeats everything. I had no idea that NickMom was going to start at 7pm, the advertisement said it would be 10pm, I was in the kitchen washing the dishes and my 4yr old walks in and pointed to my lower section and asked if that was my “beaver”. Guessing by the horror on my face my 2yr old thought that was something funny and began to sing “mami is a beaver, mami is a beaver” when I finally regained my breath and asked where he heard that word, he replied “a lady on tv” sure enough NickMom was on and what seems to be a homemade reality tv program two ladies were having a blast talking about their sex life.
I have to go on the record and say I have no problem with women talking about sex. However, I do have a problem when it comes into my boys channel for which I pay a premium price for.
If you didn't double check the programming then it's your fault, not Nick Jr.s. I used to live on the west coast and I was well aware that the showing times for certain channels were different so I always double checked before taping the game or whatever (this was obviously before TIVO). I certainly wouldn't have left the television on for my kids without checking, especially knowing that there was a change in the line up, even if I thought it was later.
DeletePersonally I think 2 hours of television is excessive, but to each their own. I do think it was irresponsible to not check what your kids were watching though.
Wow. Just wow. I'm pretty sure that with $20 DVD players at Target these days everyone has access to that sort of technology. But, you know, it wouldn't be mommyhood (different than motherhood) without something to rage against!
ReplyDeleteYou are right about that!
Deleteok assholes its not about changing the channel or putting on a dvd because apparently thats what everyone who is complaining about it is already doing...its about getting what u pay for, which is a 24/7 kids network. not to mention that the shows suck...i dont need to watch the same channel as my 2 yr old and i can't wait for this garbage to get off the air.
DeleteSeriously? Seriously?? The only thing I'm wishing for if my kid is up between 10 and 2 is for him to go back to sleep. And as a mother of an almost 6 year old who still has not slept through the night, I get being up in the night with a kid who just can't sleep.
ReplyDeleteRidiculous. When I was a kid, there was NOTHING on TV for someone my age at that time, nor was there DVR or DVD. We didn't even have a VCR. You know what I did? I went to bed!
Wow. So, they have cable and / or satellite. Which means they have access to various other channels. Probably including things like Disney Jr. & Sprout.
ReplyDeleteNow, I get it, to a point. If my kid is up in the middle of the night for some reason (maybe she's sick), I want her to be able to watch her shows, or do what she wants to calm down. But I don't think one channel changing their programming is worth getting up in arms about.
We don't have cable or satellite. Just streaming Netflix. And as upset as I have gotten when the internet has gone out on us, I'd hate to be on the receiving end of these moms, if their only outlet was a similar system. Geesh! Change the freakin' channel already.
Nickjr is advertised to be a 24/7 preschool network, that is what myself & many others pay extra to have yet it is airing nickmom which starts as early as 4pm in some places.
ReplyDeleteNickmom is disgusting, trashy,& vulgar. It has no business being on nickjr. Nickjr is advertised for children under 5- and is one of the only channels available to children.
Why should children be exposed to foul language & sex? Yes that is right this show talks about sexual expericnes and pleasures. It shows sex toys. It uses extreme language such as fuck, bitch, dick, vagina, and others. IT is nasty and if it has to be on tv it needs to be on another channel- there are tons of channels for adults but only one or two for preschoolers.
These women talk about how bad they hate their husband & kids, they talk bad about dads, they talk about children with special needs, they talk about a childs penis, and that is just the tip of the iceburg.
We were not aware of this show until a few nights ago as my daughter was learning a new vocabulary so to speak- it was very shocking and we knew there had to be some sort of mistake... but no she was watching nickjr. Her favorite show had just gone off & nickmom was on.
My daughter loves her show such as the wonder pets, wow wow wubsy, dora, & a few more and she does not understand why she can't watch them anymore.
no my kids do not watch tv 24/7. we do tons of activities with them all day long both indoor and outdoor. But come night time we want to relax with them and enjoy some tv. some kid friendly tv so we can laugh together.
Don't mean to put a dent in the way you look at the world & feel what is right & wrong for all children but- not all children have the same schedule- kids stay up late for many reasons, kids wake up during the night for many reasons, all kids have a different way of feeling comforted & different things that calm them down... for us when my little ones are sick or cant sleep we watch tv together until they fall back asleep but we can't do that when a soft porn is on tv instead of cartoons.
Not all parents have an 8-5 schedule so if they want to spend time with their children it means staying up later. And what good parent doesn't want to spend time with their chidren?
Here at my house we do tons of activites all day long. Puzzles, books, games, outside play, walks, and more but my kids love their daddy and he is only home every other night so they do get to stay up late on those nights to spend time with him. And while much play goes on everyone is tired so we like to watch tv too.
and yes I did find nickjr to be very educational so that was the only channel they were allowed to watch.
Not everyone is fortunate enough to have disney jr or sprout. Not everyone has dvr to record. And on top of paying so much more for television just to have the nickjr channel why should we also have to go out & buy a dvd player or netflix? We just want what we pay for- which is a 24/7 preschool channel. No judgment to those who find this show funny (myself- I think its disgusting and don't see how anyone with any class or care for children could watch this crap) Those who love the show so much shouldn't mind changing to a different channel to watch it.
If you can afford cable TV you can afford a DVD player. There is no excuse for any parent who was too busy doing whatever (probably goofing off on Pinterest) to check the programming before plopping their kids down in front of the TV.
DeleteIf you want to spend time with your kids, then do it. You don't need TV for that. TV is not a human right that we're discussing here.
the shows suck!!!! nickmom sucks big gigantic balls
DeleteMy only issue with NickMom is that it is a stupid corporate decision, a horrible idea and badly executed. It should be canceled because it sucks. Was Viacom expecting a bunch of 'Thank You' emails from moms for taking "Dora" off for "Mom's Night Out"?
ReplyDeleteNickMom will be cancelled before the end of the year - guaranteed.
http://mankabros.com/blogs/onmedea/2012/10/15/nickmom-r-i-p/
Maybe - but they never did bring that Moose back and there was a huge uproar over that, too. Look, I'm not saying these programs are great - they are pretty unoriginal and stupid. I just can't understand how everyone is acting like there are NO other options for kids during that four hour period. That is a little over the top.
DeleteStumbling on this post, let me just say the group mentality here is exactly the same as the one you see on the Nick Mom Facebook page, only with the opposite opinion. You have a commenter here, CCC, who explained very clearly why people are upset with Nick Mom, and everyone just ignores her and continues with "The hell is wrong with people? Why do they let their kids watch TV at 2am??? Don't they have books?!" Because judging other parents comes with being a parent, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteWell, like she said, there are different time zones, the beaver-talk comes on without warning, and there are simply times when a sick kid will stay up crying at night, and the only thing that will make his and his parents' life bearable for that one night is Dora--instead, now we have this "My kids make me drink" programming.
Again, I will say that there is no way someone can convince me that there are NO OTHER OPTIONS for children during that four hour period. That is just ridiculous.
DeleteWell, there are other options, but all have commercials, which may distract the kids and make the battle for return to sleep harder. There's Netflix, which doesn't have commercials, and is cheaper and better than any of the other stuff.
DeleteOur youngest is two, so unless she's very sick and needs some to watch TV at night, there's no way the TV is on after 7pm, but I still have a problem with this automatic thing on the Internet, where every backlash is followed by its own backlash, you know? People are upset on Facebook for many reasons, including this very limited (and offensive to many women) portrayal of mothers.
I'll give you one thing, though. I got an email from Change.org, because I'm on their email list, asking me to sign a petition to cancel the Nick Mom programming. That, to me, diminishes Change.org and its power to change society. There are real problems in the this country, and promoting an "I don't like a channel's programming decision" petition is ridiculous. But I still think protesting against the channel on its own Facebook page makes sense and doesn't deserve a backlash. When someone sets herself on fire in protest in front of the Nickelodeon HQ, I'll say this protest has jumped the shark.
There are millions of people starving in this world. There is a genocide in Sudan happening and hundreds of thousands of children have become orphans in the last year. If you can't deal with your sick children without TV then yes, I AM judging you. Period.
DeleteI used to work at a domestic violence center in NYC. The things I saw were often horrifying and two of the women I met there were later murdered by their former partners. This is the type of thing we should be rallying against, not TV programming. It's disgusting and pathetic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge5G_cYpj8g
ReplyDeleteI've learned a lot raising my step-daughter for 15 years and then having my own daughters - media is not needed to raise children and the influences it has over a child's personality is scary - if people pay attention! I hope all of the previous people who commented will watch the link I provided. Watch how mind numbing your children become when you put the TV on, then afterwards they cry & act all crazy. Now turn off the TV for a week - yup it can't be on with your programming either- you'll see a calmer child, who will create amazing things out of the random stuff in your house or make up a new game. You will be surprised.
I have to say, I had no idea that mommy-porn was available at such a reasonable hour. All kidding aside, we don't have cable, we have DirecTV and as part of the basic package (read: no extra cost for these) we have 4 Nick channels, 4 or 5 Disney channels, Boomerang and Cartoon Network. Not to mention 2 channels of PBS, which my kiddo watches while I make dinner/do homework/chores, and they have great programming until 6pm or so when the news starts. That being said, we have also gone days without even turning the TV on during the week, and he's managed to entertain himself with a room full of toys, art supplies, books, etc. If you're using TV as a way to "calm" your child, I suggest you read up on recent studies which show it actually has the opposite effect on the brain (no matter what the age). Some ppl just want something to bitch about...
ReplyDeleteWhile I agree putting "mom programming" on a kids channel is not the WISEST decision regardless to whether it be at 4pm, 7pm, midnight or later...we can all agree on one thing.
ReplyDeleteSee that big red button on the remote? Turn the damn thing off or to another channel if you don't like it.
Do you know how many times I have gone to bed with a nice pg movie playing and waking at 3am to PORN because I didn't check the listing to see what would come on AFTER my nice pg movie?
Yeah, not fun.
I just really think we need to acknowledge this is CABLE. It isn't PBS or regular network tv. Cartoon network has Adult swim every night and those shows are FAR from okay for kids.
You were caught off guard. Okay I understand. But what do you guys want an personal letter sent to warn you that you need to be paying attention to what your kids are watching???
TV's aren't babysitters...but saying oh my perfect child only watches TWO hours a day at most is just CRAP. I find that hard to believe since you don't have a clue as to what the hell they are watching during their slotted tv time.
I do agree with one thing...if your going to advertise a channel as a kid channel then adult material doesn't really belong there. It doesn't mean it should be banned. It means it needs to be moved to another channel or a very very late time slot.
If they put this show on LMN moms would be all over that!
@frances locke: You're attacking these parents because of their lack of parenting and their criticism of an adult tv show on a children's network that makes Little House On The Prairie seem hysterical? Nick Jr. is a channel for little children (my apologies for stating the obvious) And despite whether or not the children should be in bed around that time; it's absurd to have an adult show on a network strictly for toddlers. I have a lock on certain channels on my tv, but not Nick Jr. Your arrogant and condescending comments make you sound like an abysmal mother. A majority of parents, myself included, lay their children down to sleep with the TV on Nick Jr. It's kind of like a night light in case my daughter wakes up in the middle of the night and needs something to put her back to sleep. It's not like i'm leaving it on cinemax for her all night, it's a children's channel. If they're going to put Nick Mom on tv, they should at least put it on Nick at Night. It sounds like your children are going to turn out to be little Hitler's. Excuse me if I reiterate, but Nick Mom sucks and needs to be pulled and shot into space. I'm not angry because my kid has nothing to watch. She doesn't care because she doesn't watch tv during the day, only around bedtime. I'm just against it because it's not funny; it's no where near entertaining and in the off chance my daughter wakes up in the middle of the night, I don't want her listening to a bunch of grown women talk about sex and having drinks.
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