Did Dad Seriously Just Do That?

Mr. Bug (9mo) is playing with the umbrella holder thing. Its this metalic, shiney monstrosity we picked up at the Good Will a few years back. And since my child is part magpie, he is drawn to it, must knock it down and mess with it till he unearths some way to break or damage it. Daddy doesn't want him to play with it (but the mail he doesn't want to look at, ie bills, sure go ahead) so he holds out the remote control to the ps3!?!?! Gasp, shock, fall over in a dead faint! The sacred remote control is being offered to a baby over a peice of eclectic junk that we got suckered into PAYING for? Wow. All I can say is WOW.