Comments on: Fine whines… http://laurelsnyder.com/2008/07/25/fine-whines/ Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:37:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: polli http://laurelsnyder.com/2008/07/25/fine-whines/comment-page-1/#comment-334 polli Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:55:11 +0000 http://laurelsnyder.com/?p=139#comment-334 I HATED Caillou when my kids would watch him... he's a total whiner! Maybe I was blessed with non-whining kids? But I always thought he was encourageing crap behavior and I'd always have to talk about his behavior with my kids and explain why what Calliou was doing was inappropriate. I also hated Barnyard. We rented it once and it was the worse kids movie EVAH. We don't have cable so we've never seen the cartoon. First thing I said? Whassup with the udders on a bull? Let me throw .02 in by highly recommending Blue's Clues. The music rocks and it's clever and (when I watched it) Steve was adorable. Also, go rent/check out Pee Wee's Playhouse AND Fraggles for the kids. Oh, and the Muppet Show. If they are going to watch TV, let it be something you can watch without vomiting. Although anything on constant repeat will kill you... such is parenthood. Bonus honus? When you get the DVD or tapes of something (library = free brain rot!) you miss all the commercials. I believe to this day that my kids are rather non-materialistic in large part to rarely seeing "TV", but only seeing the videos of TV shows. :-) Words I rarely hear from my children? "Oh mom, can I get/have to have/really need..." I HATED Caillou when my kids would watch him… he’s a total whiner! Maybe I was blessed with non-whining kids? But I always thought he was encourageing crap behavior and I’d always have to talk about his behavior with my kids and explain why what Calliou was doing was inappropriate.

I also hated Barnyard. We rented it once and it was the worse kids movie EVAH. We don’t have cable so we’ve never seen the cartoon. First thing I said? Whassup with the udders on a bull?

Let me throw .02 in by highly recommending Blue’s Clues. The music rocks and it’s clever and (when I watched it) Steve was adorable. Also, go rent/check out Pee Wee’s Playhouse AND Fraggles for the kids. Oh, and the Muppet Show. If they are going to watch TV, let it be something you can watch without vomiting. Although anything on constant repeat will kill you… such is parenthood.

Bonus honus? When you get the DVD or tapes of something (library = free brain rot!) you miss all the commercials. I believe to this day that my kids are rather non-materialistic in large part to rarely seeing “TV”, but only seeing the videos of TV shows. :-) Words I rarely hear from my children? “Oh mom, can I get/have to have/really need…”

]]> By: Talia http://laurelsnyder.com/2008/07/25/fine-whines/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Talia Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:18:44 +0000 http://laurelsnyder.com/?p=139#comment-332 I never really noticed that Calliou was bald, and my daughter loves him, and I've read her several of the Calliou books...it must fit him well. I never really noticed that Calliou was bald, and my daughter loves him, and I’ve read her several of the Calliou books…it must fit him well.

]]> By: Alex http://laurelsnyder.com/2008/07/25/fine-whines/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Alex Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:48:53 +0000 http://laurelsnyder.com/?p=139#comment-328 YES! I had this same conversation with my wife about Otis the Cow on "Back at the Barnyard." I mean...it's a cow named OTIS, with a MALE voice, and it has UDDERS. I grew up in the country, man, and this is messed up. And as far as I can tell, there's no explanation given (or apparently, warranted). Surely someone else has noticed this. I mean, if people can freak out over gay Teletubbies, a hermaphrodite talking cow should cause keniptions (coniptions? Kenipshuns? Not sure...). YES! I had this same conversation with my wife about Otis the Cow on “Back at the Barnyard.” I mean…it’s a cow named OTIS, with a MALE voice, and it has UDDERS. I grew up in the country, man, and this is messed up. And as far as I can tell, there’s no explanation given (or apparently, warranted).

Surely someone else has noticed this. I mean, if people can freak out over gay Teletubbies, a hermaphrodite talking cow should cause keniptions (coniptions? Kenipshuns? Not sure…).

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