Parenting Roundabout

On Dancing with the Stars, remember last season, when Bobby Bones won [https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18922326] and everyone freaked the heck out? This season, the semi-final prompted the freaking out when the judges, having scored themselves into a corner, eliminated James Van Der Beek. Next week: The finale, which we'll watch but won't be happy about.

On The Good Place, "The Funeral to End All Funerals" was actually three funerals and a courtroom drama. Mentioned: The Good Place podcast (https://www.nbc.com/the-good-place/exclusives/tgp-podcast; please don't try Terri's drinking-game idea). Next week: "The Answer."

On The West Wing's "Welcome to Wherever You Are," we got sympathetic indigestion just watching the Santos team criss-cross the country in the last days of the campaign, even if they did take Jon Bon Jovi along for the ride. Next week: "Election Day, Part 1."

Home TV screens are getting bigger, yet phone-size screens are more and more becoming the place our eyeballs soak up entertainment. We talked today about which screens we're most likely to watch TV and movies on—theatre? television? laptop? iPad? phone? Where are you doing your viewing?

We’re still trying to understand what VSCO girls are, while helping kids navigate (or ignore) what’s trendy and what’s not.

An article about addressing kids’ annoying habits (through positive reinforcement only, please!) got us complaining about just how hard it is to break our kids’ habits—and really, our own too [https://parenting.nytimes.com/preschooler/scolding-children].

Hobbies like sewing, knitting, and crocheting theoretically have as their end product something somebody can wear. For today's question, we wanted to see if any of us are quite that industrious. Maybe our moms were, and maybe our daughters, but us? Listen and see.