garlington
08-16-2005, 07:56 PM
My son got called for one of those consumer research projects. All he had to do was watch TV for three days and write down the commercials he watched, which ones were cool, and show up for a questioning period. $50 bucks for doing what he was gonna do anyway. Or so I thought.
We think our kids do nothing but watch Tv. We're almost conditioned to be mindful of it and certainly most of us regulate as well as we can. I think we all assume our kids probably watch too much TV.
Maybe not.
Becauise I was helping him write everything down, I had to sort of monitor my son's TV watching. At one point, I actually had to ask him to please come watch TV. In the middle of the day in August with no friends over and no prospects for entertainment, TV was the last thing on my kid's mind. I actually had to give him the dadface and say "You get in there and watch that TV, young man!"
Oh, the irony.
He did get the 50 bucks, though.
I don't know if these guys are nationwide or not but it's usually an easy 50 or a 100 bucks for an hour and a half of answering questions. Grown ups can do it too:
www.fieldwork.com
We think our kids do nothing but watch Tv. We're almost conditioned to be mindful of it and certainly most of us regulate as well as we can. I think we all assume our kids probably watch too much TV.
Maybe not.
Becauise I was helping him write everything down, I had to sort of monitor my son's TV watching. At one point, I actually had to ask him to please come watch TV. In the middle of the day in August with no friends over and no prospects for entertainment, TV was the last thing on my kid's mind. I actually had to give him the dadface and say "You get in there and watch that TV, young man!"
Oh, the irony.
He did get the 50 bucks, though.
I don't know if these guys are nationwide or not but it's usually an easy 50 or a 100 bucks for an hour and a half of answering questions. Grown ups can do it too:
www.fieldwork.com