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confessions
May 8th, 2006
I feel compelled to confess that I do not listen to NPR. Apparently, everyone else I know does, but not me. I actually did listen to NPR for a time, in the ams getting ready for work, and that is how I heard about the 9/11 attacks, but then, all that seemed to be on NPR was 9/11 talk, and it made me cry all the time, so I quit and never looked back.
I dont like talk radio. I am not an audio person. Actually, I dont even listen to the radio very often, because I cant stand the commercials. Since we got a Tivo, and have been able to ff thru commercials, I have become extremely intolerant of them on regular tv or radio. I do listen to music, on cds. But frankly, half the time, I have no idea what the lyrics are. I often have no idea what a song is actually about.
Back when I was a brooding teenager, and spent oodles of time reading the lyrics of all the tapes I listened to, then, sure, I knew the words. I need to read the words to be able to hear the words in the song.
So, no talk radio. No NPR.
I also have an extreme aversion to battery operated toys that make noise. This might be related to the auditory thing, but the incessant drone just makes me want to stamp over and destroy the damn thing. Or at least turn it off. I realize that this is my personal issue, so I try to be as accomadating as possible. Sometimes it is just TOO much. Honestly, I cant remember us having very many noisy toys as kids. We had a speak n spell. And I think the same toy, but for math. We had board games up the wazoo, dolls, rollerskates, stuffed animals, and I am sure my brother had plenty of cars/soldiers/action figures. We had an atari. And a basement where we had lots of imaginary play (school, restaurant, roller disco) but I dont recall noisy toys.
I mean, for heavens sake, children are noisy enough without adding wailing plastic into the mix, no?
Filed under ponderings |3 Responses to “confessions”
Yeah, toys are too loud nowadays. In fact, there are hardly any toys that don’t make sound. I have had to fight the urge to pound a few to dust. We have auditory sensitivities in our house too. It seems that each of us is sesnistive to seperate things. Makes it fun.But I’m still an NPR geek, sorry. My husband is more the Air America type. Those ranting radio shows hurt my ears! I need the dull mumbling of correspondants with subdued opinions. He needs the livelier debate to keep him awake.
Timing is so funny sometimes! I was just reading this post and my three year old came in to complain that the batteries had died and his toy wasn’t making noise anymore.
Sometimes I want to steal the batteries out when he isn’t looking, but he’s catching on and I just have to tolerate the darn things.
Battery operated toys make me crazy. My daughter has a RoboRaptor (although, to be honest, she hasn’t played with it for ages), and when she first received it, I kept wanting her to “turn it down”. Unfortunately, there is NO volume control.
I am an NPR junkie. It’s the only station that I ever listen to in the car and, sometimes, in the kitchen. I never listen to other radio stations and rarely CD’s. I did, however, recently request some Beatles CD’s from the library, and Estelle and I are both hooked on them.
I don’t watch a lot of television, but we do have Tivo. I love it. Fast-forward, pause, record … How did we ever live without it?!