TV Review- Goosebumps and a Rant About Spongebob

It never fails- when most mothers learn that I allow my kids to watch horror movies and TV shows they look at me as if they’ve just seen a cockroach. Meanwhile, their child is mindlessly running in circles mimicking Spongebobs laugh over and over and over and over……

“My children would have nightmares if I let them watch scary movies.” They always say.

As if I tie my ten year old down, tape her eyelids back and force her to watch Rob Zombie movies. Pa-Lease…I know the difference between quality fantasy fiction that is not only entertaining but stimulating to the imagination and that brain rotting psychologically damaging crap that is other wise known as Rob Zombie movies and Spongebob cartoons.

In no way am I saying that they, Rob & Bob, should be banned. On the contrary, I firmly believe they have every right to express themselves however they wish just as I have a right to call it crap and limit my children’s viewing of it.  Oh they watch Spongebob, but the minute they start imitating him is when I decide it’s time they start watching something different. Like Goosebumps by R.L. Stine. Goosebumps, which unfortunatly doesn’t air on television anymore, is also available through scholastic books. And I can’t believe so many mothers think it’s evil! There’s always a lesson to be learned within a Goosebumps story like- appreciating your loved ones, not taking things that don’t belong to you, or if it’s green and hairy and has one eye then just run away.

My kids and I are all in agreement that Goosebumps is quality kids horror and well worth uploading to the ipod.