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Hi~
I have just recently relaxed our Television "rules" and have let them
self-regulate...which IS working by the way. ( kids are 7 and 5).

I had to laugh this morning though..my son (7) was excited and animated as
he told me he loves to get up by 7am to watch TV.
He said he LOVES the half hour commercials.

What??? Then it dawned on me that he meant those Informercials...hahaha. I
had to smile.

But what was cool was that he started decribing all the products he has seen
and how they work..in DETAIL! And he was just so fascinated about it. He has
an "inventor" streak in him <<G>>.


~Marcia ...who's happy he made no mention of purchasing the products just
that he enjoys watching them....hahaha



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Elizabeth Roberts

LOL That is great! Who knows how these infomercials may inspire him!

MamaBeth

MarSi77@... wrote:
Hi~
I have just recently relaxed our Television "rules" and have let them
self-regulate...which IS working by the way. ( kids are 7 and 5).

I had to laugh this morning though..my son (7) was excited and animated as
he told me he loves to get up by 7am to watch TV.
He said he LOVES the half hour commercials.

What??? Then it dawned on me that he meant those Informercials...hahaha. I
had to smile.

But what was cool was that he started decribing all the products he has seen
and how they work..in DETAIL! And he was just so fascinated about it. He has
an "inventor" streak in him <<G>>.


~Marcia ...who's happy he made no mention of purchasing the products just
that he enjoys watching them....hahaha



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pam sorooshian

On Dec 18, 2003, at 5:38 AM, MarSi77@... wrote:

> But what was cool was that he started decribing all the products he
> has seen
> and how they work..in DETAIL! And he was just so fascinated about it.
> He has
> an "inventor" streak in him <<G>>.

There are "Seen on TV" stores around now. So it might be really fun to
go in and see those products "live" too. Sometimes they are out of the
box and working. Sometimes they're cheap enough to buy one just to have
closer look at it. We've bought a few things based on infomercials - a
food dehydrator was one and it is great. Also bought "space bags" -
plastic storage bags that you suck all the air out of with a vacuum
cleaner in reverse so things like blankets or sleeping bags that you're
storing can take up very very little room.

I have a cool book called, "Why Not: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to
Solve Problems Big and Small" by  Ian Ayres, Barry Nalebuff which is
about how to be creative and inventive and come up with marketable
ideas in response to everyday life problems - they have a website
<http://whynot.net/> and on it they have a place where many people have
posted their inventive ideas for products. These are very interesting,
many would be interesting to a 7 yo kid, too - there is a "doggy
doorbell," a "beeping golf ball," and wrist-watch cell phones and much
much more.

-pam
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In a message dated 12/18/03 9:02:04 AM, mamabethuscg@... writes:

<< LOL That is great! Who knows how these infomercials may inspire him! >>

And outside the pocket fisherman, there's very little violence.
Even INSIDE it there's very little violence, and I doubt they sell them
anymore anyway.

I like the intensity of the presentation on those things. There are
emotions in the voice and delivery that you just hardly hear anywhere else.
Sometimes combinations of intensity and joy and desperation and expansiveness. Maybe
aspiring actors should watch a couple. When I was broken-legged sometimes I
would fall asleep with the TV on (I fell asleep a lot when the narcotics were
still a part of my life) and would wake up to something about leg exercises,
and that never felt good to see. <g> Or food prep stuff, and I couldn't get to
the kitchen at all. But for a mobile, whole person, they're not so
emotionally damaging. LOL.

Sandra

Fetteroll

on 12/18/03 11:50 AM, SandraDodd@... at SandraDodd@... wrote:

> I like the intensity of the presentation on those things. There are
> emotions in the voice and delivery that you just hardly hear anywhere else.

Kat had problems waking up and not being able to get back to sleep for a
while so she ended up watching late night television. She not only learned a
lot about gems from the home shopping networks but that patter that they
use. She used our video camera to make several of her own commercials and
perfectly captured that same tone and urgency to buy now! ;-)

Joyce

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In a message dated 12/18/03 10:17:55 AM, fetteroll@... writes:

<< She not only learned a
lot about gems from the home shopping networks but that patter that they
use. >>

Like "cubic zirconium"? <g>

I learned that from TV.

Sandra

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In a message dated 12/18/2003 11:56:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:


> I like the intensity of the presentation on those things. There are
> emotions in the voice and delivery that you just hardly hear anywhere else.
>
> Sometimes combinations of intensity and joy and desperation and
> expansiveness. Maybe
> aspiring actors should watch a couple.



Don't forget the pulpit!

My dd sang with some of her theatre people as choir to a big church
production downtown -- by invitation. not membership -- and there was PLENTY of
intensity and emotion in all the speaking parts by the regular churchgoers.

Don't have to buy the message (in either case) to appreciate the
delivery. <g>

JJ


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In a message dated 12/18/03 12:29:28 PM, jrossedd@... writes:

<< Don't forget the pulpit! >>

You're right.
Infomercials have something in common with some kinds of sermons. <g>

Buy this product and you will be HEALed-eh.
Praise the Lord. Only $19.95, and not available in any other church.

Sandra

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In a message dated 12/18/2003 11:45:07 AM Eastern Standard Time,
pamsoroosh@... writes:


> >>>There are "Seen on TV" stores around now. So it might be really fun to
> go in and see those products "live" too.>>>

>>>I have a cool book called, "Why Not: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to
Solve Problems Big and Small" by Ian Ayres, Barry Nalebuff which is
about how to be creative and inventive and come up with marketable
ideas in response to everyday life problems - they have a website
<http://whynot.net/> and on it they have a place where many people have
posted their inventive ideas for products.<<

Thanks for the wonderful ideas Pam! Sounds great!
~Marcia

PS. I love your math site. I am actually excited about getting over MY fear
of it.


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