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The biggest case of baby brainwashing I have ever seen is right here. Can you say over the top? I know when I do have kids one day, of course I will bring them up to know the teams I am passionate about (and yes, Marquette, my own alma mater, is front and center there), but this is certainly overkill.

A mindless half an hour video of items like where Bucky Badger wandering around the screen and kids are taught about Brooks Bollinger is too much. And for the record, as a Jets fan, no child should be exposed to Brooks Bollinger at such a young and tender age.

Now, some who know me might make the case that I am calling this out because of my hatred for all things Badgers, so let me add that the company has made videos for other schools as well. You can find Baby Wolverine, Baby Cowboy, and even a Baby Irish for the girlfriend's beloved Notre Dame. Either way, I think this is ridiculous. While I think it's cute to see kids dressed up in their parents' favorite teams' gear, that is a far cry from plopping them in front of a TV to ingrain the team in their head. I personally am going to want to keep my baby AWAY from the TV for as long as I can, rather than repeatedly showing them a video. I'll expose my kids by taking them to games, and telling stories about Diener and Wade, thank you very much.

4 comments:

Vinnie 9:45 PM  

There's no way I'll ever brainwash my kids into being an MU fan either. Into Wicca and boundless jingoism, yes. But never into team allegiance. That would be wrong.

Vinnie 11:10 PM  

By the way, Danny, I'm disappointed you didn't add a Conan O'Brien "Actual Items"-style speech bubble to the photo of the DVD cover. As in, "I'm gonna grow up to be illiterate!"

Vinnie 11:21 PM  

Also, when I think about it seriously, they're missing an obvious criticism of these things. That is, kids get the idea of going to these schools so ingrained in them at an early age and get so attatched to the colors and the name and all that superficial stuff that they will never make a clear-headed decision about their school choice.

Plus, when the kid grows up and it turns out he's not quite Madison/ND/Michigan/wherever material, he or she has this unrealistic, unattainable goal and the parent pressure on top of it. My mom sees it all the time with her eighth-graders, and it's super fucked up. And ND people are most guilty of this; let's make no bones about that.

Unknown 10:05 PM  

See, I'll be that dad for Marquette, but this is one of a myriad number of reasons why I'm unfit for parenting.

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