the blue blog archives: proof that the boys have watched way too much game show network

After I told them to turn the tv off, they set up a 52-card game of Card Sharks in their room. I heard them upstairs yelling "lower than the Queen, higher than the five..." just like in the real show.

posted by alison at 11:11 pm | in just blogging 08

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I love that game!! Your kids always entertain themselves in the best ways and with out the tv. Maybe they could show my kids how to do it? :)

Posted by: Becky at September 29, 2008 5:23 AM

Hah, that's great!

I loved Card Sharks when I was a kid. I'd totally play with them.

Posted by: Rebekkah at September 29, 2008 8:47 AM

We did let our son out yesterday. He and two of the boys in the neighborhood made a "mud slide" near the brook across the street. Good times. I was inside switching over the summer for winter clothes--and did not see the result of the mud slide until he was already heading into the shower. Boys **rolling eyes**

Posted by: cath at September 29, 2008 9:47 AM

The problem with tv is not that it's not educational; it's that it's TOO educational.

I'm always really careful about what my kids watch. One day, my then-six-year-old asked me about "that show we watched where the guy got his head cut off by a knife." I was speechless. Imagine my horror when I realized he was talking about the murder of Daniel Pearl, the reporter who was kidnapped and executed by terrorists, whose execution he saw on THE NEWS!

Posted by: Suzanne V. (Yarnhog) at September 29, 2008 12:27 PM

thank you for the video clip.
Thank heavens the boys have to go to school to take a break from Card Sharks.

Posted by: gayle at September 29, 2008 5:09 PM

It IS one way to pay for college...

Posted by: Sarah-Hope at September 29, 2008 6:28 PM

Haha! That's funny!

Posted by: rachel at September 30, 2008 2:05 AM