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Thu Sep 8, 2016, 11:27 AM

Star Member MineralMan (87,058 posts)

My 92-year-old mother has some memory issues.
Age-related, but sometimes troublesome. My father, who is the same age, is OK, and deals with those issues pretty well, so they're able to continue living in the house on their citrus farm in California.

I call them every day, at the same time each afternoon. Yesterday, my mother was quite upset about what she was seeing on television when I called. She said that the people on the television were all talking at the same time and yelling at each other. I could hear the TV in the background. It was tuned to Fox News.

Both of my parents were on the phone. So, I suggested that they find some other channel to watch, since the programming was disturbing them. My mother said that she wanted to follow the news about the election. I suggested that they watch the evening news, both local and national, on one of the major broadcast networks. I reminded them that those stations limited the amount of discussing what was going on, due to time limitations, so they'd learn what was going on, but wouldn't have to listen to the acrimonious arguments that are the fare on cable news channels.

To my surprise, my father said that he thought that it was a good idea. He said that my mother was bothered by what she had been seeing and was finding it difficult to follow. He ended by saying they'd try that, and have some other channel on during the day...some channel with interesting programming that had nothing to do with politics.

My Dad is always concerned about my mother's state of mind, so I expect he's going to do just that.

Thank goodness!

Response to MineralMan (Original post)

Thu Sep 8, 2016, 11:30 AM

izzybella (45 posts)
2. Ugh

My parents watch Fox 24/7. We actually block all cable channels when they visit and tell them we don't get cable. So far it has worked!

You sound like a very caring child. It is so tough to deal with memory issues.

Rock head is a child but not how you mean it.
Too bad your parents raised a ****tard.

Response to izzybella (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 8, 2016, 11:36 AM

Star Member MineralMan (87,058 posts)
3. At 92, both of them are tired a lot of the time,

and use the TV as a background thing. Lots of older people do that. Fox News is on in a lot of their homes. When I visit them a couple of times a year, the TV is off, and we have conversations instead. I hope they can find a better channel to have on. I suggested the Home and Garden channel, which actually has a pretty good variety of programming that might appeal to them. In fact, I looked up the local cable channel for that on my tablet while I was talking to them, and gave them the number.

Who knows? I can certainly understand why watching Fox News would be upsetting for my mother. It's a constant stream of people talking over each other and making little sense.

Raising you should have made them used to that.

Typical of the primitives they have to out do each other on the bouncies.

Response to MineralMan (Original post)

Thu Sep 8, 2016, 12:17 PM

skylucy (731 posts)
9. Thank you for posting this. My parents are

88 and 89 years old and live in the same town as me. I go to their house about every other day and call them at the same time (5 o'clock!) every day. Your parents sound a lot like mine. My father is physically/mentally in excellent health. My mother is very frail and has a few memory problems. During the Republican convention, my mom was very concerned because on TV there were "so many people there who love Trump". When the Dems had their convention, my dad and I said "See...Look at all those people...It will be ok!!" So cute. They got mad at Fox News and stopped watching it after they voted for Obama and saw how Fox always lied about him and bashed him!! Their 70th anniversary is in October and I requested a congrats card from President Obama for them. Sorry to run on but I feel a kinship with people who are looking after elderly parents. It is a bittersweet journey, isn't it?
Regarding Trump: My mother may not be quite as sharp as she used to be, but she knows an idiot when she sees one!

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Surprised they didn't hide the remote in the ceiling.

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Surprised they didn't hide the remote in the ceiling.

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Actually, I sympathize with Minnesota Moses' aged mother.

I don't do television mostly because I was raised without it and never got into it and I'm deaf, and find closed captioning a bunch of superfluous crap and a nuisance. 

However, once in a while I "catch" television, usually when in a bar or a physician's office.

Sadly, I'm not impressed with Fox News.

There was one time I was seated in a bar dining on my usual cuisine, when I tried watching the screen of the television there.  It was Fox News, and that particular day, Barbara Bush had gone into the hospital, and her husband the elder George Bush was visiting her.

That was the main story on the screen, occupying the left half of it.  The right half had two parts, one atop the other, and was covering two other stories.  Then there was that running commentary on the bottom of the screen.

I of course couldn't hear, but it drove me nuts anyway.

How the Hell is it possible to watch four things at once, and "get" any of it?

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Yep....

skylucy (731 posts)
9. Thank you for posting this. My parents are

88 and 89 years old and live in the same town as me. I go to their house about every other day and call them at the same time (5 o'clock!) every day. Your parents sound a lot like mine. My father is physically/mentally in excellent health. My mother is very frail and has a few memory problems. During the Republican convention, my mom was very concerned because on TV there were "so many people there who love Trump". When the Dems had their convention, my dad and I said "See...Look at all those people...It will be ok!!" So cute. They got mad at Fox News and stopped watching it after they voted for Obama and saw how Fox always lied about him and bashed him!! Their 70th anniversary is in October and I requested a congrats card from President Obama for them. Sorry to run on but I feel a kinship with people who are looking after elderly parents. It is a bittersweet journey, isn't it?
Regarding Trump: My mother may not be quite as sharp as she used to be, but she knows an idiot when she sees one!