The Green Room

his latest scheme

My husband enjoys thinking what a strict disciplinarian he'll be when we have babies someday. For example, not only will they not date until they're out of college, they won't even know the opposite sex exists. I'm not sure how he's gonna pull that one off!

Last night he came up with a new plan. We've already agreed that we don't want them to watch very much TV and we won't have cable. And he swears they won't play video games. And now...

We'll only have black and white televisions.

Yes, you read that right. This way, once they're teenagers and they're complaining about how backwards our family is and what terrible parents we are, we can upgrade to color television and they'll be sufficiently satisfied.

I laughed really hard at this. But really, it's fine. I'm only going to let them watch reruns of the Cosby Show and the Andy Griffith show and some PBS anyway.