Baby Einstein

I really needed to get work done today, and Liam thought that was a silly idea. So I finally gave in and plopped him in front of a Baby Einstein DVD for the first time. I've been resisting this for a while, so as not to indoctrinate my son into the brain-sucking world of trite and emasculating TV programming for kids. Baby Einstein is like a gateway drug. Once you go there, what's to stop me from sitting him in front of the Wiggles a year from now?

Alas, he loved it. So now I feel like a bad parent on two levels. Not only did I give into the corporate kid culture, but I also have been depriving Liam of something he seems to truly enjoy. I guess it'll all be worth it when he starts explaining the theory of relativity to me next week.