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The Gerbie

y 21-month-old daughter,
Talya, has begun uttering
a number of two-syllable
; words, and it's exciting.
She says "apple" and "Mama"
i and "baby" and pronounces pickle
peekuhl, with an emphasis on the
first syllable.
"Say it again!" I
scream with glee
whenever Talya
calls, peekuhl. I've
even indulged in
that awful parental
. act of putting my
young child on the
phone so she can
say peekuhl — but
only with close rela-
tives.
Another of Talya's
new words is
"power," which has
nothing to do with
the amount of authority she exercis-
es over our lives (which is com-
plete, of course), but rather the
name of a favorite video series,
"Preschool Power." These show little
children doing all kinds of things,
from brushing their teeth to making
a fruit salad, so as to teach other
little children how to do them as
well. I, for one, find these videos
maddening. The lyrics are absolute-
ly insufferable — if only I could
begin to describe how awful they
are — especially to a song about
cleaning out a gerbil's cage. In
what can only be called an affront
to the entire family of music, the
song tries to sound like jazz, while
the lyrics go, "Cleanin out the ger-
bie...[that's right, gerbie] Time to
change the gerbie...I'm cleanin' out
my gerbie's cage!" Oh, I hate it.
But there are times, I admit, when
I am so grateful for "Preschool
Power" that I could sing the gerbie
song myself. That's because Talya

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loves it so, and will sit quietly and
watch, giving me a good 25 min-
utes to fix dinner, put away laun-
dry, or just rest. For my older chil-
dren, "Rugrats" has the same effect.,
It's breathtaking.
I hear a lot of "child experts" talk-
ing about the detrimental aspects of
television, and I
don't take issue
when it's families
who let children
spend six hours
day in front of the

But this simply
is not true of the
typical family.
Most moms and
dads I know turn
on the television ,
after they have
given a full day
of fun to their chil-
dren — played
with them, entertained them, read
them books — and they need a

break.
So long as TV viewing is limited,
and parents monitor what their chil-
dren watch, television is not the ulti-
mate evil. And I'm getting tired of
"experts" who tell me I'm a rotten
mother because I let my children
watch it, and of-other parents who
hint that they're just a little bit better
because their children never sit in
front of the dreaded TV.
Let's be honest: We all grew up
on television (I actually watched
hours and hours and hours of "Gill'
gan's Island"), and we turned out
normal enough, didn't we
Well, maybe not whoever wroth-.,

that "gerbie song," but most of us

Elizabeth Applebaum
AppleTree Editor