Wednesday, March 26th, 2008...5:11 pm
#14: The Nintendo Wii
For the Best Parent, proving they are a better parent than you is of primary importance. This was once a dreary and tedious chore, filled with costly tennis lessons and time-consuming carpools to baseball, golf, or soccer practice. Add to this, the Best Parents’ compulsion to condemn most forms of mass media, especially those anti-social video games, and it was indeed the Dark Ages of White Parenting.
But then, in the Fall of 2006, the white light of freedom, fun, and status arrived in a stylish, Apple-esque, box. But this was no overpriced I-tunes-laden Ipod
It not only enabled Best Parents to flaunt their superiority over non-best parents with grand tales of The Best Parent Ever Wii Hunt. It also offered an ostensibly athletic and pro-social experience. No longer would their precious progeny sit transfixed before their Playstations 
flatscreen
Cancel those tennis lessons! Get your refund from Little League. With the Wii Play
game and Smooth Moves
The possibilities are endless in this brave new Wii-topian world. While the Best Parent frequently espouses the virtue of community and diversity, they secretly would much rather live in on their own private Biosphere
So take that, non-best parent who didn’t get up early enough to stand in line at Toys-R-Us or overpay for a console on eBay! The Best Parent is pressing their A-button and waving their numchuck
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11 Comments
March 27th, 2008 at 2:30 am
My God, I have the worst white mother. I knew the empty place under the tree should have contained a Wii.
Now I’m doubting my mom’s ethnicity. Oh darn.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:49 am
This is funny but riding in the wake of Stuff White People Like. That guy got a book deal and over 18 million hits!
I’ve got to come up with a clever idea as a SAHM…
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
We have a Wii and I’m quite happy with that fact.
2 of 14.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:41 am
We got one today. It is a lot of fun!
April 8th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
i LOVE this blog more than stuff whtie people like because I always knews I was a white person…. and when I became a white parent….. I felt like I had a void in my life… NOW that void has been filled… NOTHING says “i’m not white” like being able to laugh at enteries on this blog and the others that have sprung up….. nothing says it more except maybe mentioning my tall dark friend Kunta Kente… did I spell that right?
So keep up the good work! I love this…. Every time my husband reads these (or other) pages he points out just HOW MUCH i resemble what he’s read….. he’s right…. I’m white…
May 9th, 2008 at 6:57 am
NUNCHUCK IT’S SPELT NUNCUCK!!!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I love this site, but this is the one entry that doesn’t quite hit the spot for me. Surely the Wii is just a games console? The latest and greatest games console maybe, but a console none the less. I’m sure Best Parents don’t let their offspring play Video Games. Video Games stunt development just like television, you know. Parking the kids in front of the Wii is more the style of second-best parents, who don’t have a nanny and therefore need something cheaper to entertain the kids.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Doesn’t matter what color you are for this one. Wii is the best babysitter. BEST BABYSITTER! BEST!! Buy three–if you can even get one!!
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
I. need. a. wii.
I’m pregnant and when I’m home on maternity leave for three months, me and my four year old are going to need some stuff to do.
I’m going to open a paypal donation fund, so that I can get a wii.
LOL
February 17th, 2009 at 4:26 am
yes and tell me how you feel when you 3+ year old throws the wii mote and breaks your tv ill be sticking with real excersise
October 14th, 2009 at 5:56 am
oops….i walked into the wrong blog…I saw: “nintendo” and i just sort of walked in…i’ll be gone now.