I recently started showing Gavin “Finding Nemo” because I needed to distract him and all his DVDs were downstairs.  Knowing that Gavin loves fish, I figured he would enjoy “Finding Nemo”, so I put it on for him.  True to my expectations, Gavin loved “Finding Nemo“, so much so that he would now sign “fish” every time he wanted to watch it.

All was going well until I discovered that he had picked up something “bad” from watching the movie…

This was something my SIL2 related to me when Gavin was playing in the kitchen one day.  He opened one of the drawers and started rumaging through it even though we have told him on numerous occasions that the drawers are off limits.  Usually a stern warning is enough to get him to close the drawer and retreat.  On this day, when my SIL2 told him to stop playing and close the drawer, he eyed her fiercely and continued swinging his hands through the drawer, all the while maintaining his defiant gaze in her direction.

If you have ever seen “Finding Nemo”, you will recall that early on the movie there is a scene when Nemo swims out to the boat after his father forbids him to go near it.  Marlin then starts threatening Nemo, saying something along the lines of, “Don’t you dare touch that boat!”  To which, Nemo stares back defiantly and smacks the boat with his fin.

Hmmm… sounds a little too coincidental, don’t you think?

Now I know the real reason why kids shouldn’t watch TV and why you should screen through everything your child watches if you insist on letting them watch it…

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