Silent Fish
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 07:49 PM
I swear they think that "OH! my child won't eat cookies all the time since the cookie monster doesn't!" even though children are influcened by their favorite characters, they arn't going to stop doing what they like just to be like them it's TOO LATE pbs you can't change the personality of the character to brainwash children! |
Winona
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 09:48 PM
It's kind of like when they made Snufalupagas real to grownups too, so the kids wouldn't think that if they "told" that they wouldn't be believed.
Or, like the character in the African one who has AIDS so kids can identify...
I really don't have too much of a problem with it, if it helps kids out what they hey. I miss some of the old Sesame stuff, but I can live without it if it means evolving for today's society. |
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 09:57 PM
Personally, I'd suggest that Elmo drop the Mo and just be El. |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 10:42 PM
Personally, I think today's evolving society has gone OVERBOARD... either way, here's a link.
http://www.theindychannel.com/health/4359482/detail.html |
Nettie
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 10:57 PM
Thanks for the link MnJ. It's Sunday. I couldn't be bothered looking for one. I'm glad someone is awake enough to do all the hard work for me! |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 11:09 PM
No problem although tonight I hardly qualify as awake. 😊 Sat up all night last night watching movies, dozed off for about an hour, and then was right back up. How I'm still up is beyond my comprehension. |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 11:10 PM
I knew I had read something about that though... |
Rod
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 11:47 PM
Elmo drop half his name? Are you nuts? (Forget I just asked that, Hairy)
I think he should keep the whole name, but split it into two...
El Mo
Huh? Whaddaya think?
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Smerk
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 12:30 AM
Eh, I was more a Grover fan myself. Elmo annoys the crap outta me.
I haven't read today's paper yet, or was it in yesterday's, Nettie? |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 12:38 AM
I know Elmo can get on your nerves! Our baby girl, Reese, just LOVES the shit out of him though so he's EVERYWHERE I turn!!! Arrrgghhh!!! I can handle him better than our first girls favorite... Barney the Dumbass! Whoops, I mean dinosaur!
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Smerk
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 12:47 AM
Mmm...my niece loved Elmo when she was younger...she's graduated to <a href="http://www.thewiggles.com/">The Wiggles</a> now. (She's only 2!) |
Rod
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 01:01 AM
My daughter just LOVED her singing Elmo doll.
I dunno, somehow the batteries just ran down way too soon...
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"I'm a little bit country" still haunts me... |
Smerk
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 01:03 AM
Well, thanks to all this Elmo talk, I now have "skip to my lou" going through my head (my niece has the elmo piano, kept here at our place, so every so often, out it comes and "Get down with Elmo" blasts out...scary) :grrr: |
Maegan
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 07:06 AM
...I've managed to keep my kid off that stuff for now. My mom said that every decade had it's "own" Sesame character. The 70s was Grover, 80s was Big Bird, 90s was Elmo. The 00s haven't spurred forth a HUGE following of any other character yet...maybe b/c of all the other T.V. shows available. I'd like for it to stay the way it is. If I'm gonna let baby girl watch it, I'd rather it be NORMAL. I hear my uncle did a really fabulous Cookie Monster impression back in the day.
Jocelynn's only 15 months, so we'll see how the next year goes. Dad loves Winnie the Shit...Er Pooh. I stay away from "character" items. Her shoes have purple stars on them, not Dora, her clothes have flowers or butterflies, instead of Strawberry Shortcake, Tweety, or Pooh, she doesn't watch T.V. yet, and her toys are pretty much a mishmash of blocks, dolls, cars, animals & books. Although, I have read "The Fluffy Chick" about 800 times just in the last few days...she loves the part about the wobbly calf. :roll: |
Silent Fish
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 07:58 AM
if any childrens show is annoying it's Dora, she reapeats every thing she says and then does it again in spanish! It's like she's trying to give children terrets or something |
Dany
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 12:57 PM
Dora is annoying. But Blue's clues is really annoying. The dude is talking to a animated dog for God's sakes. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 01:16 PM
Who eese theese Elmo?
Sorry, My SS days (not Nazi) were the early 70s so I only know of Elmo through the toys. I had heard about Snufalupagas becoming real to adults, and that just blows. Another sign of the coming apocalypse. Mark my words - we're all DOOMED
Of course, as I grew older I gravitated to The Muppet Show. There was some real class. Except for the Star Wars episode. My God that one was painful. |
Dany
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 01:44 PM
That Star Wars one was painfull. |
Winona
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 05:22 PM
Boychild is into Blue, Thomas the Tank Engine and all that. He was wayyyyyy into the Wiggles for a while, but Blue took over when I took him to a live Blue's Clues as a suprise. He just shook for the first 10 mins.
I actually like Dora because he is learning Spanish from it - between the tapes in the car & Dora he's getting pretty good at basic Spanish. (He even argues with me in Spanglish occasionally)
I had no idea he was picking it up till one day he starting counting buttons on a suitcoat in perfect Spanish. |
Smerk
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 07:11 PM
SF, I've never come across Dora (but that's not unusual). If you want annoying repetitiveness, go for that evil british show, the Teletubbies. They just burble away using no known language, and encourage children to watch more TV. They repeat the same clip at least 2-3 times in 10 min. I've watched it once. For research purposes, and that was painful enough... |
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 05:21 AM
wow people are dumb! let the mother fucking puppet eat his FUCKING COOKIES!!!! |
Just a random guy
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 07:32 AM
Not saying that I agree with their logic, but Sesame street IS supposed to be an educational show, and what educational purpose does the cookie monster really serve? |
Deediddums
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 07:34 AM
Yup that story is all over the news here in Dublin too. Plus they are talking about a special gym that has opened up to cater especially for kids...as young as three months old. THREE MONTHS OLD AND GOING TO THE GYM! How does that even work!? |
Dany
in Waco, Texas
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 09:57 AM
I have no idea Deediddums. Why don't you go find out for us? |
The Curator
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 10:15 AM
Seriously, Deediddums. If you can find out more info on this gym for 3-month-old infants, I'd like to see it. Sounds like it would deserve a mention on the site. |
Deediddums
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 10:21 AM
I am having a look for info now, heard it on a radio talk show this morning. They were trying to get into contact with the woman who runs it. Was funny listening, people were getting very riled up about it. |
Deediddums
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 10:26 AM
Here ya go...www.kidsgym.ie
Not as interesting or funny as they made it sound on the radio - although admittedly the website is designed to sell the rather odd idea of a gym for children. |
Winona
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 10:40 AM
There are a number of kid gyms in Chicago.. it is mostly a tumbling playing type of area with those soft mats for gymnastics types, with wedged and circular forms to climb up, on etc.
Because it is great for rainy days etc when I can't get him into the park I was actually thinking of getting Boychild into it before we moved, as it is a nice alternative to the McD's playland that has caused me weight gain. 😊 |
Deediddums
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 10:46 AM
Hmm had not thought of it that way. It does rain an awful lot here too! Although knowing the area of Dublin this gym is located in it looks to be one of those fashion things so that little Alicianna can have a gym membership like Mummy and maybe a matching Louis Vuitton gym bag. |
Dany
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:02 AM
I remeber my used to take me to this Jamboree thingy when I was about 4 to 7 years old. |
Rod
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:16 AM
Yes, Winona, they have gymnastics mats and other good things, too.
But don't overlook the infamous "kidapult" they recently installed.
Here's a quote from the Kidapult website...
"Launching annoying little bundles of noise farther than you can by arm!"
But seriously, anything a parent can do with a child that young, they really don't need a gym to do it in.
But I do agree that it would be a good place to take your kid to get them used to swimming, and such, and it is also a good place for parents to get their kids together while they are very young. (Not to mention the parents getting out a little bit more...)
A good portion of many kids' apprehension about starting school is their fear of a bunch of new kids, and if you get them in a group early, they usually are fairly excited when they finally get the chance to go.
On the 'more on the original topic' side of things...
I never once remember meeting anyone who watched the cookie monster as a child who grew up eating cookies like he did. Sure, every once in a while for fun. But, if a child really gets the idea from the Cookie Monster that it's okay to eat cookies 24/7, and begins to do so, my question would be "Why the hell aren't the kid's parents doing their job, and teaching their offspring right from wrong?"
It's not TV's job, and if someone parks their kid in front of a TV set to babysit and is not involved enough in their life to teach them about eating the right types of food, then are they really qualified to parent in the first place?
Whew, that turned out longer than I expected. |
Nick
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:24 AM
The tellytubbies are indeed evil. im sure theres a cult behind it... |
Dany
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:27 AM
Anyone watch that show Boobah. I watched five minutes of it and I got confused. |
Winona
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:38 AM
I've often thought that (if I was still in my college days and not trying to immigrate) I'd love to get ahold of Boobah and some of the Wiggles tapes, some really good weed & just sit back and enjoy the ride. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:39 AM
I don't watch too much toddler television. I guess it comes from not having a toddler. I have watched some older kids shows but most suck and the few that don't change after a year or two and aren't as much fun anymore. Mucha Lucha Gigante springs to mind. |
Dany
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:41 AM
Maybe that why Boobah confused me. I wasn't smoking a joint at the time. |
Maegan
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:42 AM
I forgot about Blues Clues, we don't have cable. I used to watch it with a little girl I babysat. It was not quite as annoying as some others. Although, SS is still my all-time fave, I guess it won't be anymore. Yeah, I think Cookie-Monster is just a way to add FUN to education.
One, 2, 3, 4, GAHH!!! COOKIE MONSTER!!
One, ah ah ah, 2 ah ah ah, 3 ah ah ah. I always liked the Count. I was never a fan of Big Bird. I did like the worms & Oscar the Grouch. My grandmother had a few videos that I would watch at her house on rainy days.
I think I can solve the dillema some parents have with kids not wanting to play outside, even on sunny days. Keep the A/C off. If it's just as warm inside as it is outside, they'll go outside b/c they'll actually be more comfortable. We didn't have A/C until I was about 10. Our house was like a little aluminum stove, cooking us in our skins. Being outside was preferred to being inside. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:42 AM
Winona, I'm shocked! I have lost all respect for you.
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I bet you're trying to emmigrate to Canada too. Have you no shame?
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Maegan
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:42 AM
...Also we didn't have any game systems. |
Dany
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:44 AM
Why do you need game systems when you got the internet Meagan? |
Charybdis
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:45 AM
No game systems? Don't tell me you had to play analog pong. |
Winona
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 07:44 PM
Immigrating from Canada to the US. If it were to Canada I'd be less worried, as the drug laws are a little more sane there, at times. Not that that is something I need, mind you, just that I wouldn't dare try it here. |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 | 04:03 AM
http://www.boohbah.com/zone.html
It's the strangest, scariest website I've ever found.
:gulp: |
Smerk
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 04:54 AM
That's disturbing, Boo :gulp: What on earth were the creators of that show on? |
Boo
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 05:02 AM
God knows, but it must be effective, whatever it is...
*shudder* |
Charybdis
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 07:52 AM
Man that was GREAT!!!!
I may not be posting here for awhile, I've found a new "favorite web site".
😊 :cheese: :lol: |
Boo
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 09:20 AM
:lol:
Back to your normal, non-depressed self, chary? |
Maegan
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 09:38 AM
...No, we didn't have any game systems until we were older...The internet wasn't really around when I was 6 or 7. And it's MAEGAN, btw.
I was just making a comment about how easy it is to get kids outside, when it's not as much FUN inside. Sheesh. |
