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It's Electric: The Electric Company Returns
The Electric Company: Spiderman Saves The (Birth)day
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Fri Nov 27
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they didnt figure it out for YEARS.
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Having kids of my own, I will tell it like it is, where children's programming is concerned. We had a PBS-only policy until the kids were both well past toddlerhood. I love most PBS kids' shows (though I admit to a true distaste for Calliou and his whiny ways) - we watched Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Arthur (which is a show that really holds up over time), and Cyberchase. As the kids got older I let them watch some Nick and CN shows, but only after I vetted them. I didn't care for Nick and CN on principal, but I've found that there are a handful of really decent shows there, if you keep in mind that these aren't really educational shows: SpongeBob, Flapjack, and Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends are all goofy as hell and are an excellent way to introduce your kids to a certain kind of humor; Avatar was an amazing, epic, high-quality series with an overarching theme of spirituality and one-ness; and of course there's Yo Gabba Gabba, for which we are all too old, but we all love it anyway because it is the whip.
Oddly, my kids never cared for the Disney channel (which is fine by me, because other than Bear In The Big Blue House, IMO most of their stuff is dreck).
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As we're talking about learning.....can you tell me what Hortense means? I've been wanting to ask this forever but have felt someone stupid that I don't know what it is....
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Josephine rocks my world and Ive always wanted to name my daughter Hortense, but I have been informed by everyone that I have told this to that she'll be called Horton hears who. and that's not cool.
Still love the name, even if every human being surrounding me doesn't <3
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PS - Hortense - if you went to WJHS, for sure PM me.
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"If you've got the crime, we've got the time..."
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I have a Sony E-reader and I call it Morgan, in honor of Morgan Freeman, the Easy Reader. I even have a little picture of him as Easy Reader taped to the cover.
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I would never have made it to calculus in high school were it not for Square One.
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1. Parents are more and more often just leaving their kids to watching TV instead of active playing
2. The television shows made for kids nowadays are subpar and are not generally educational
3. The way the characters speak in these shows is in fact causing children to not learn how to speak english properly. Instead of learning proper pronunciations from a young age, they are in fact learning to just speak "baby-talk" for longer because that is how the characters on their TV programmes speak.
4. Children's TV programmes are therefore the devil and we need better, educational programming available if their going to be watching the damned thing instead of playing anyways.
5. The Electric Company, old school Sesame Street, Mr. Dress-up, Mr. Rogers and co. are all children's programs that were smart, educational and GOOD. Teletubbies, for an old example did not teach children how to speak properly, instead it was just all "ohlala! Beenowhey!!!" That's bad. I don't know the names of kids TV shows anymore because I don't babysit anymore, but I have seen snippets of several and they all go along those lines.
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I was only allowed to watch PBS programming and films growing up. Eventually I also became a huge I Love Lucy fan as well :-)
Over Thanksgiving, we had my boyfriend's young second-cousin at the house and that kid is so fucking smart it blew my mind. Sometimes I wonder how kids end up that way. Then, while watching her parents, I realized that they didn't talk down to her. They speak to her like an adult. Which might seem strange to some but it seems to be working pretty damn well for them. Her dad was also telling me how one of his favorite things to do with her is hop on the bus and just drive around exploring the city (they live in the bay area), which I thought was great.
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I didn't have any cable when I was little so the channel was either on Univision or PBS, which I fuckin' loved because of Mr. Roger's, Sesame Street and Carmen Sanfuckin'diego. It helped me teach myself to read when I was 3 and since I'm not a native speaker of the Eenglesh language, Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers was absolutely CRUCIAL in my learning to speak english in a matter of months.
As a foreign child, TV also taught me a lot of things about white people. I'm sure the spanish Jezzies who got here young can relate.
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I remember a few years ago Madonna saying in an interview that she didn't let Lola watch TV and back then (as I was a kid), I use to think, "Well, that's downright BLASPHEMY! What mother doesn't allow her children to watch television, if only a little!" but now I'm like, a-ha. Now I know. She didn't want her to watch such crap on tv!
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If I could somehow get my niece onto an episode of Curious George, I would be very happy.
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And years from now, we will laugh about how Mama never lets him simply watch TV. He has to talk back, dance, fly--whatever the characters are doing we do also.
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I really wanted to share this Blossom Dearie song that she did for Schoolhouse Rock. It's called "Unpack Your Adjectives" and it's so darn cute that I even put it on my playlist when I have parties.
Ch --- arm. CHARM. Blossom has it.
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