Managing TV Time - The Sanity Sanity Saver

Kids TV programing can be awful. For $5 or $10 per month you can get DVR through your cable company and there's absolutely no reason your household needs to be subjected to Teletubbies or Barney. Our kids are young enough where they don't understand that there are a number of shows on at any given time. We pick shows out that we like to watch, record them and let the kids watch what we like/want. And all 3 have learned sign language thanks to Signing Time. Here's what the kids "programming" is on the Lewis family TV:

Jack's Big Music Show (Noggin)
Backyardigans (Noggin & Nick Jr.)
Wonder Pets (Noggin & Nick Jr.)
Miss Sunny's Spider Patch (Noggin)
The Upside Down Show (Noggin)
Signing Time (PBS)

We give them their TV Time/Downtime here and there for their enjoyment and our sanity, and in between our favorite Pixar movies and Pee Wee's Playhouse DVD's this is all they get on TV (oh maybe except for Mom's cooking shows and Dad's motorcycle racing). And luckily Saul and I can handle these shows and I usually catch Saul immersed in them too. My favorite is turning on Jack's Big Music Show where we can all get silly and dance and sing.