After spending almost the entire night last night, waking up every half hour or so to my DD3 screaming that SpongeBob was trying to get her…\u00a0 I have decided.\u00a0 I hate SpongeBob.\u00a0 I thought it was a dumb cartoon to begin with.\u00a0 But after last night…\u00a0\u00a0 SpongeBob must die!<\/p>\n
SpongeBob isn’t the only kids show I find destable. Pretty much anything on cartoon network.\u00a0 I mean seriously, how seriously can I take any show on a network that proclaimed that Bugs Bunny was too violent to be show on their network?\u00a0 I can’t stand Oobi on Noggin.\u00a0 I can not stand the Backyardigans, only because after watching just a few minutes of that show, my kids start speaking like they’ve been raised in Southeast DC.<\/p>\n
As much as I love Dora the Explorer…\u00a0 my 5 year old has figured out that it doesn’t matter if he answers Dora or not, Dora will still yell, “Great! Excellente!” and the show will continue.\u00a0 The same with Blue’s Clues and Go Diego Go.\u00a0 While they are great shows, and we used to watch the Blue & Dora block on Nick Jr religiously..\u00a0 these days, we don’t watch at all.\u00a0 What’s the point of the “interactive TV” when it really isn’t interactive at all.\u00a0 My dd3 still loves it, though it’s hard for her to get into the show when my ds5 is just sitting there like a bump on a log.<\/p>\n
One show we do like is Lazy Town.\u00a0 We have a rule in our house though.\u00a0 When the kids on Lazy Town start singing and dancing, my kids have to get up and dance or I turn off the TV.\u00a0 It really works too.\u00a0 *S*\u00a0 The kids love jumping and dancing around like Sportacus.\u00a0 and for once, there is a kid’s show with mom appeal.\u00a0 *S*\u00a0 Don’t know what I mean, hop over to www.NickJr.com and check out Magnus Scheving, the man who not only created the show, but also plays the part of Sportacus.\u00a0 *S*<\/p>\n
We also like Blues Clues.\u00a0 Not the new stuff with Blue’s Room.\u00a0 the oldies, with Steve, and some of the first and second seasons with Joe…\u00a0\u00a0 Despite the lack of enthusiasm from my oldest…\u00a0 the baby still loves to “Bow Bow Bow!” with Blue.<\/p>\n
Oddly enough, as much as he doesn’t get into Dora, my DS5 has recently discovered Go Diego Go, and he loves it!\u00a0 He doesn’t interact with it, but he does spend the rest of the day singing the songs and pretending to be Diego.\u00a0 Diego is Dora’s cousin.\u00a0 The show is very similar to Dora, with the biggest difference being the hero is a guy.\u00a0 *S*\u00a0 Plus, Diego and the other characters speak alot more Spanish then on Dora.\u00a0 And!\u00a0 They don’t always translate!\u00a0 I love that!\u00a0 *S*\u00a0 talk about immersion.\u00a0 *S*\u00a0 I’m still on the fence about Diego.\u00a0 He does teach the kids lots of Spanish, and lots about different animals…\u00a0 but there is definitely a big enviornmental\/PETA message in the show.\u00a0 I dunno, but for the moment, while on “Vaction”, it’s a good distraction for the kids, who haven’t gotten used to the time change, while Mommy catches a few more ZZZs, or types on the computer.<\/p>\n
But the truth is, at home, we hardly ever turn on the TV.\u00a0 Mommy watches the news first thing in the morning, and turns it off when the kids wake up. Then it doesn’t come back on again until after the kids are in bed.\u00a0 About the only time they get to watch kids shows like Dora, Diego, and more is when we are on vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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