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Friday, May 11, 2007

In Praise of the Wiggles

Pommygranate hits the nail on the head with an excellent post on the benefits to parents of entertaining distractions for annoying toddlers. Forget the impact to children. What about the young lives that are saved by inane singing and goofing around by numerous lightweight entertainers.

Allelujah and All Praise for the years of service provided by the Teletubbies, Wiggles, Bob the Builder and Play School, to name a few. Nut ball academics that preach the benefits of non television watching for kids under two need to be consigned to a screaming home to be sat inside a play pen and have mushed peas thrust onto their faces.

Although our kids generally poo poo that kind of stuff now and will deny ever having watched it, there are immense benefits in having ten minutes (if you are lucky) of quiet reflection while the young ones suck up inappropriate childrens audiovisual content.

I would have added my personal congratulations on succinctly slamming some of the nutty pc thinking, but Haloscan was sad.

3 comments:

pommygranate said...

Colin

transplanted Brit with Yu-Ghi-Oh fanatical son and singing daughter?

jeez! you're a carbon copy of the PG family. except im english, and we moved to sydney.

my 7yr old boy now has 394 Yu-Ghi-Oh cards. it's pretty much all he talks about.

Colin Campbell said...

Ryan only has about a hundred card deck. He goes to the local toy shop where they have tournaments on the weekend. It is great because all the older boys have taught him how to play. He has actually won some games despite barely being able to read the cards.

pommygranate said...

jack has discovered a shop that sells 90 cards for $10!