My son, D, loves the show Super Why. And baby girl, B, has also become quite addicted to the show. As a matter of fact, she is barely talking and just started saying "spy" which turns out is her version of Super Why!
We don't have cable, and seriously I'm glad for it. During they day we only watch PBS. And I love Super Why and Word World. And those seem to be the kids' favorites. I remember when my nephew was as young as my D. He would be watching cartoons on cable and every single commercial that came on he would turn to my sister and say "I want _____ mommy!" Children are so swayed by commercials...
Of course its not just that sort of commercialism that bothers me and that I want my kids to avoid. Both of my children seem to be completely drawn into prescription drug commercials. When D was just starting to pay attention to things going on around him, he would totally stop everything and watch when there was a prescription drug commercial on. First it was just the Lunesta commercials, then it was Nasonex... then it was all of them. I was convinced that he would be telling people what prescription drug they would need when they complained of some kind of ailment...
Anyway, that was a serious digression of sorts... what I was really intending on posting about was the Alphabet song that Alpha Pig sings on Super Why. It deviates from the standard alphabet song that we all learned growing up. I'm wondering if that's going to start causing problems in kindergarten classes. The teacher will say "Let's sing the alphabet song" and half the class will sing the "standard" song, while the other half will sing Alpha Pig's version.
I have to say that I do like it. And like hearing the ABC's sung differently. And D has just started trying to sing it! The other day during lunch he was singing part of it. So I joined in and started singing it. Baby B was hilarious! She screamed with enjoyment the whole time! She was a riot! And then afterwards she kept saying "spy" (which is how I figured out she had been trying to say Super Why).
But the cool thing is that D has abcdefg almost down :) only 19 letters to go!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
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For some reason, I find Super Why very irritating. I think it is because the word "super" is overused - super duper computer, super letters, super story answer, etc.
We do watch mostly PBS too - my kids are the same way about commercials. I LOVE Curious George - I don't even mind watching that one.
We watch Noggin a lot - I think it's Noggin - and they don't have commercials, just their own for their own shows. For some reason we don't watch PBS. I don't even know why. I think I'm partial to the Noggin shows (shame on me). And whenever a commercial comes on (if we're watching Sprout or some other channel, by chance), Mateo says, "UH OH!" and panics because he wants his show to continue and doesn't want to watch the commercials. And the real scary part is? Sprout has brief infomercial commercials for random things kids wouldn't care about - similar to the perscription drug commercials you wrote about. And I don't get it. That might be another reason I tend to stick to Noggin.
Now I'm curious about how Alpha Pig sings his ABCs...
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