^YUM! In a little while I'm gonna head back to the apartment and toast an english muffin and spread some tuna over it. Mmmmmm.....
There's this awesome place in town called Bagelmeister that has the best bagels and strawberry cream cheese.
Okay, what in the name of Lord Nelson's trousers did I just see? I was going through the channel until I landed on a show called The WotWots. I know it's for small children, but watching it for five minutes out of some demented curiosity, my mind's thinking "Who the hell came up with this show?" Brits, were you responsible for this show? The only reason I say this is because "wot" is a British slang and the narrator has a British accent.
Ah, didn't know that. I just figured it was a British show. But yeah, I do agree. Children's shows these days are just crap. :/
^I soo agree with you all. Television just had a totally different take on kids. Nowadays they act like kids are a bunch of brainless vegetables...Shows like Dora the Explorer, Yo Gabba Gabba, and ect. just drive me insane!! The Cat in the Hat Knows A lot or whatever it is, is pretty good though. My neice watches it all the time... Hey, I loved Zoboomafoo! It was awesome! Did anyone else see Kratts' Creatures? Loved that show. Little Bear, Franklin, those were good too...
Oh, Little Bear, Franklin... I remember those! And Peanut, Butter and Jelly too. "Do the noodle dance!"
Ollie smiled from behind his cigarette before finishing it off and snuffing it out. He took a sip from his glass, and set it upon the old wooden table. "A pleasure to meet you as well, Clyde," Ollie said. He rubbed his thick Irish red beard thoughtfully as he listened to the conversation around the large table, and waited for a pause in the discussion before interjecting. "When I was growing up in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I wasn't allowed to watch too many shows that some might deem appropriate for my age. Cartoons were mostly forbidden, though I viewed my fair share of what was deemed 'rebellious material' in my household. Nevertheless, at a very young age I gained an appreciation for documentaries and informational networks like Discovery and TLC. Unfortunately it seems that even much of what I valued as a kid has turned toward the way of the white elephant in preference of reality TV and shock value," Ollie said as he leaned forward in his black leather jacket and tipped his equally dark fedora up toward the back of his head. "Now that I'm in my late twenties, I don't really watch TV much anymore, but I don't think there's much worth watching. Movies are a different matter, though even that's suffered. There are so many movies and shows based on books, but Hollywood seems content to remake the same ones. I'd like to see some stories put into decent cinema. One story I would like to see on film is The Giver, which was one of my favorite books growing up. There's also plenty of Ray Bradbury that hasn't been tapped into."
This cracks me up because I was older when the shows you watched came out, and when I saw shows like Zoboomafoo, I was like "god, these shows suck...when I was little kid shows were so much better!"
Link looked at the window in the far wall. He could see people chattering from across the street. Checking his watch, he realized that it was 5:53 pm his time. "I wonder what I should eat for dinner..." he said.
When I was a kid I watched Arthur and Scooby Doo all the time. I agree, kids' shows seem very dumbed-down these days. I'm also seeing a lot of parents who seem to want to keep their kid "protected" in bubble wrap til they hit 20. It's irritating. Sorting stuff in my closet atm...blehh so boring..on the bright side though, I love my big fluffy maine coon cat.... figured out a lot of plot kinks last night, too, so I expect to up the word count a lot tonight. The plan is 50k by the 18th.
I use to watch the Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain. Animaniacs was amazing they taught you the 50 state presidents, they taught you other languages, etc. And not just Spanish. Kids shows these day treat children as if they don't have a brain. I use to even watch Tales of the Crypt as a child. To me those shows were awesome. Reading Rainbow taught you about books. Mr. Roger Neighborhood taught you about business and how things were made. Pseudo documentaries for kids. Where the fiz is this stuff now? Nowhere.
I agree. Why are shows today treating children like they have no brains? Observe. DORA: We need to get Flippy the Dolphin back home! But where should she live? *cue pictures of a desert, a mountain, and an ocean* *mouse icon clicks on ocean* DORA: Ocean! Right! Now we need to cross a bridge to begin our journey! But where is the bridge? *screen zooms out to reveal a bridge not more than ten feet away from her* *mouse icon clicks on bridge* DORA: *points at bridge* THERE IT IS!! There's a difference between teaching a child something and calling them a complete moron in a polite, subtle way.
Thank you. Pinky and the Brain never did that to me. Neither did Animaniacs, they even taught multiplication in Animaniacs. With the downgrade of education and downgrade of educational shows of course children aren't getting it. edit- And the Animaniacs wasn't just for kids it was for everybody. No one, not even parents or babysitters, want to sit through the sloth of Dora Explorer. It kills brain cells.
But some people should fail. Some people should be left behind. Other kids shouldn't be dragged down because of those less capable. Testing doesn't teach children. Nor does teaching children how to test teach them anything. Children do not learn through a stream of word vomit that is remember this and that.
In theory, it makes sense. We don't want little Johnny feeling left out because his peers seem to be getting things better than he can. We don't want to appear cruel and send a message to little Johnny that, "If you can't understand this like the rest, then you're just too stupid to function! Survival of the fittest, punk, and you're just not fit." But in practice, it's useless. What we should be doing is, while letting the more capable children move ahead, encourage kids like little Johnny that it's more important to judge yourself by your own standards, not someone else's. Then again, I'm not really that sure how you make it work in a school setting. Do you just...prolonge a lesson?
It is disappointing to hear that children should be labeled or considered as less capable; it is more accurate to say less economically privileged.
Survival of the fittest. Johnny needs to learn this. Not everyone can be smart. Not everyone can be geniuses.
I agree. However, I'm not all that clear about this. How do they keep the others back? Is it like they keep an entire class back a grade so Johnny can catch up?
