Tuesday Morning with the Kids

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

[graywolf]

After watching a strawberry shortcake DVD with my 3 and 5yr old daughters, they insisted we watch the entire thing again in spanish. Bear in mind no one in the house speaks spanish, they just thought it was funny to watch the people speaking a funny words.

[satanclaus]

A bottle of Scotch would probably help.

[ritualcoffee]

I'm almost 26 and still enjoy tuning into the spanish channel's soaps! i don't understand a word of it. ;)

[hannamyluv]

My 3 year old would be perfectly satisfied to watch Transformers: The Movie 26 times in a row. My husband is thrilled. I, on the other hand, am not so happy about that.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to get the transformers theme song out of your head after having to hear it over and over for days on end?!?

[graywolf]

Do you have any idea how hard it is to get the transformers theme song out of your head after having to hear it over and over for days on end

Once I was in an elevator by myself, i guess I got bored and the song from bear in the big blue house popped into my head. I started to sing without really thinking about it. Well I came to the big finish just as the doors opened, I could tell from the faces of the people waiting to get in that I was singing just a little too loudly...

[pmac]

>A bottle of Scotch would probably help<

Bad idea. It's best not to serve booze to kids before at least noon. Your obviously not a parent. :)

[korkus2000]

>>Transformers: The Movie 26 times in a row

I would love that. Instead I have to watch teletubbies with my cousin when I baby sit him. Talk about mind numbing. I feel your pain graywolf. Kids can watch something a 1000 times and still laugh at the same stuff everytime. I enjoy asking them, "whats going on?" constantly. Then pretending to not understand the concepts.

[ThomasB]

I'd be happy about that. I've read and heard several times that it helps children to learn another language if they watch movied, listen to CDs/tapes, ... in this language. Maybe they'll wake up and speek spanish one day. ;)

[Shak]

Dora The Explorer is great methinks.

My Niece and I have great fun watching that in the mornings.

Shak

[AAnnAArchy]

My birds watch PBS every day, and today I accidentally walked in during the theme song of Dragon Tales. Now it's stuck in my head. Someone please shoot me.

My partner tells me that the Clifford theme song is much better, but somehow I always get stuck hearing the Dragon Tales song. Arrrrggggh! I'm thinking of tracking down "It's a Small World" because I think it's the lesser of two evils.

[hannamyluv]

I love Clifford but John Ritter did Clifford's voice so now they are doing Clifford, the puppy years, which I don't like as much.

I just thank god every day that he has no desire to watch Barney. That's the point where the TV needs to be smashed.

[bunltd]

Aaah, my almost 7 year old insists upon Pokemon - he's watching tonight's installment shortly.

I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was! to catch them is my greatest test, to train them is my cause! I will travel across the land, searching far and wide, teach Pokemon to understand, the power that's inside! Pokemon! ...

Stuck in my head doesn't even begin to describe it, after hearing my son's rendition ;)

But my 2 year old, well, she has a thing for Miffy & the Teletubbies.

Miiiifffffy, a cute little bunny... Miiiiffffy a sweet little bunny.... Miiiiffffyyyy and friends!

But we're also intimately acquainted with Dora, Dragon Tails and unfortunately Ed, Edd, & Eddy.

Ain't kids great?!

LisaB

[hannamyluv]

7 year old insists upon Pokemon

Point him towards Yu-Gi-Oh. Much easier to watch(for you anyway) and the card game is much better for teaching logic and strategy. We narrowly avoided Pokemon with my 7 almost 8 year old. He's hooked on Yu-Gi-Oh now.

[graywolf]

Isn't Yu-Gi-Oh a poster child for 'the power of the schwartz'

(spaceballs merchandising refrence)

[hannamyluv]

Aren't all cartoons these days?

[sidyadav]

Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, Transformers, Cubix, Digimon and John Bravo ;)
man, I love those cartoons, no matter if they're in Japanese or Melalikilanise!

3 days ago, I just got Yugi's deck for $20NZ! What a bargain! 40 cards, Blue Eyes White Dragon... ;) (and yes - we do play with them at the uni :) )

Sid

[bunltd]

Thanks for the suggestion, we've watched Yu-Gi-Oh, but he's pretty invested in Pokemon - Yu-Gi is a little older, more grown up in flavor, among other things - he just likes Pokemon better.

LisaB

[hannamyluv]

Yu-Gi-Oh reminds me alot of my Magic card days (at college). The games are rather similar. POkemon has a card game too, but I think most kids fail to realize this and just use the cards like trading cards.

[giggle]

My two year old is into Ja-Ting-Ja (Thai cartoon - popular over here).

For the 100th time...

Ja wa ja ting ja, wa ja ting ja, wa ja ting jaaaaaa
Ja wa ja ting ja, wa ja ting ja, wa ja ting jaaaaaa

Keep repeating until you fall asleep.....

[lorax]

Back in Dec my 2 year old daughter was very much into Dora the Explorer and a particular Winnie the Pooh video. While I was Christmas shopping (or more specifically - while I was waiting in line to check out) I sometimes found myself humming the Pooh theme (even occassionally singing it) or trying out my new found Spanish vocabulary! All of it much to the amusement of those around me.

[HowlingWizard]

Just wait until the get older. Mine are now 10, 14 & 17. We are gone thru the truma twice of a kid growing past Barney. The tune then changes to the kill Barney song. This will then get sung repeatly to the next younger child.

I clipped this piece from the front page the Boston Globe [howlingwizard.com] some years back. the picture and headline are from different columns. But this clipping has made many parents happy.

And, yes my 10 year old will still watch the same video over and over.

[gregboone]

ROFL!

I work with and around animated cartoon people. I read this thread because I was looking for the theme of the Transformers show from the 80s.

I now realize the suffering you parents must go through nowadays. When I was a kid we didn't have VCRs, or DVDs, we had to use real human memory. You saw something once and held on to it.

Now you poor parents are subjected to endless hours of the same thing.

Well, look on the bright side, at least the kids are at home :)

[Herenvardo]

Yu-Gi-Oh reminds me alot of my Magic card days (at college). The games are rather similar.

And what about pokemon?
Both games are from WotC. They are THE SAME game, but instead of having five colors for spells you have some elements (I don't know how many). I've played the pokemon tcg and it was funny (but i missed a mox or a black lotus ;))

About Spanish channels on TV... what can I say? I'm Spanish and I understand it completely (in exception of some politicians ;P)

Saludos,
Herenvardö