Parenting Teens: The Office
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 03:22PM Disclaimer: The following post was writen while enduring a third half hour of The Office on TIVO. The writer is not in her normal sane mind.
I admit I am the one who doesn’t get the joke. I didn’t get SNL in the 80’s or Lettermen in the 90’s. Now it is The Office.
I have my oldest soon to be disowned child to thank for addicting the younger two and our live in extra child to this mind numbingly dumb program. Three of them plus TIVO. They can watch the same show again and again and again. The Office is like SpongeBob SquarePants for the older set. Just thinking about either of those shows causes brains cells to die. I’m sure that no brainwaves would register if an EKG were administered to someone while viewing it.
I watch them watching The Office and they giggle. I’m not surprised the girls giggle. That is what girls do. But the boys….? Young men…? There is an occasional chortle, even a guffaw. They emit mostly deep masculine giggles but giggles nonetheless.
I just don’t get it. I have tried to watch this show. I think it is silly, crude and annoying. The kids love it.
Maybe I’m just too old for this.
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Maybe you need to give it more of a chance. I am your age with 2 teenage boys and hated the office during its first year. I gave it a chance again in the second year and slowly started to like it and now its one of my favorite shows. I admit that Michael does go to far with his idiocy often but the characters are so great.
I write about this type of thing all the time on my blog about connecting with your teens through pop culture and technology and actually wrote a post once about watching the tv shows your kids recommend at http://connectwithyourteens.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-should-you-watch-television-shows.html