I find it disturbing...

I've been working DH's nerves for a while in an attempt to convince him that we should get a Wii. We live in Minnesota where there are liiiiike, what? 11.5 months of winter? Something in that neighborhood. If you're living under a rock and don't quite comprehend what that means, we can get into Alaska-like temperatures (though we breed far smarter women... oops, did I say that aloud?). -50 degrees farenheit (that's WITH the windchill of course but nevertheless) has been known to happen. Ice fishing, skiing, snowmobiling, and even playing in the damn backyard is dang near impossible most of the time... so we watch movies. And we get fat and bored.

AAAANYWAYS, I really got off track there. I was online, perusing the selection of games for the Wii that might be suitable for the little ones and I kept running across reviews that looked something like this:

"UGH, my 3 year old beat this in the 6 hours after we got it and pitched a fit that it was over"

What in the HELL are you doing letting your 3-year-old kid play Wii for 6-EFFING-HOURS straight?! I don't get it! I mean, a couple hours, sure... that's the whole reason we want it. 6 hours? And THEN the kid pitches a fit and it's the game's fault? That is life, folks. You have to deal with it, so sum it up in 3-year-old terms and help them to deal with it too. Not everything goes as planned, you don't get everything you want, suck it up and move on. Period. A huge part of parenting is preparing your children, in age appropriate terms and ways, for the REAL world... not some fantasy land where they're entitled to everything and don't have to be "uncomfortable".

Don't get me wrong, I'm not disturbed by the kid... I HAVE a 3 year old and yeah, he pitches a fit from time to time but I don't go "Oh boo-hoo, it's Pepperidge Farms' fault that his sister got 1 more cookie in her package."

PUT ON YOUR BIG GIRL PANTIES AND *DEAL*.