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Sweet niblets! I don't know what's worse - the Achy Breaky mullet, or this?
I am a huge fan of all forms of electronic babysitting.
I could lie and claim I completely disapprove, but in the interest of honesty - I love me some iPad or Dora downtime.
Which was working fine, until we were approached to become one of the Australian TV ratings households.
Initially, I thought, great, this should be fun! Oh the responsibility of representing the ratings of thousands of families in our same demographic!
I am an easily excited stay at home mother, don't judge.
And so we said yes and the ratings equipment was installed.
Then I read the fine print and realised that my blogging came under the possible conflict of interest categories, being that I have written about movies and TV shows.
I fretted a ridiculous amount that they would remove us. The excitement could have been over before it had even begun!
But they looked into it, even checking my blog content and what I'd written previously about ratings relevant content, and I was given the OK. Just as long as I didn't disclose the fact that we were a ratings household to any PR or relevant company. Which meant not blogging about it. And that, my friends, has been sheer agony. So many potential blog posts regarding my many freak outs over the kids incorrectly registering that I am watching Hannah Montana instead of themselves. Oh the shame of having some random stranger in the ratings head office think that I, an adult, would be watching a kids show.
Then immediately assuming that they would think I was watching it in order to perve on an older Billy Ray Cyrus sans mullet. I really, really wanted to ring them and explain that it wasn't me, that I don't have a thing for older Billy Ray. #1Hubby thought that was unnecessary and convinced me not to. But if you're reading this, Nielsen peeps, I was not the one watching Hannah Montana, and I do not have a thing for the modern day streaked, layered, beach haired Billy Ray, k? So many missed blog posts about my angsty parenting moments on account of the volume of TV babysitting I relied on over the various school holidays in the past few years that we've been doing the ratings.
Imagining more judgy, disapproving ratings people noting the later hours I was allowing the kids to watch TV at night over school holidays (which was not TV babysitting per se, but was actually me trying to get them to sleep in a bit later in the mornings, which is totally acceptable understandable, right?).
