Making & Breaking Parenting goals

The article isn't all the enlightening but has a few cute parts. I like this sentence I highlighted, it sounds like my kids:

Electronic babysitting.
It may be that the kids of yore played quietly on the floor with their corncob dolls while their mothers took their once-a-week bath. More likely, the kids pulled on the washtub the entire time, trying to eat the lye soap and shrieking demands for gruel. Today, we have a choice. Many a new mom has discovered that if a DVD means half an hour to shower in peace, she'll take it, no matter what sarcastic comments she may have made about Baby Mozart during pregnancy.