Creation of a monster

What kind of monster have I created? One morning when I was feeling kind of rough, I turned on the Boomerang network which plays cartoons all day. everyday so Nathan would leave me alone for five minutes. He is now at the age where he he wants to watch his "funny shows" all the time. He begs to watch them while I am making dinner, he begs to watch them during dinner, he begs to watch them in the evening when Bruce and I are trying to relax and catch up on our shows. This morning he awoke when Bruce left for work about 6:10 and asked to watch his funny shows. I told him to go back to sleep. About a half hour later he crawls into our bed and asks again to watch his funny shows. I told him no because Mom is trying to watch the news. As soon as I walk out of my bedroom to start gathering the boys stuff for daycare, he switches the channel on me!!

Darren is at the age, and it is part of his personality, not to sit still for nothing unless he is eating. He has no desire to attempt to put wood puzzles together like Nathan did at his age, he just wants to be where the action is. He will not play in his room if we are in the living room, if Bruce is in the shower he has to be at least in our bedroom. He was like that as a baby, so I should have expected it. We would lay him on a blanket in the living room and we would all go into the kitchen to make dinner or whatever and he would scream because he was left alone. You can tell he is a second child.