Kids TV Worth Watching
As our family has muddled through SIX WEEKS of viruses, I’ve turned to the parenting tool of PBS kids tv many times. We’ve found several shows that the boys like and I either like too, or at least don’t mind.
Sesame Street: A classic. I can’t stand that elephant, and Zoe and her pet rock, Rocco, are pretty annoying, but other than that we all enjoy the show. I like seeing the celebrities and hearing Cookie monster sneaking in a big word of the day, like esoteric or lachrymose.
SuperWhy: I don’t much care for it, but 4yo Drake really loves it, and intereracts and practices his reading.
WordWorld: Both 2yo Guppy and Drake enjoy this, and really like the characters. Plus that Build-a-Word song is really catchy.
WordGirl: This vocabulary show is a bit above Drake’s head, but he likes the cartoon about the city-saving girl superhero, as do I–it reminds me of the dear, departed Tick cartoon.
Fetch with Ruff Ruffman: Again, I think some of this goes over Drake’s head, but the cartoon parts are quite funny, and the kid parts are interesting.
Have we ever watched all five shows in a day, for a whopping total of three hours of TV? Yup. We’ve all been sick, the weather’s been crap. This is yet another one of those humbling parental admissions. I’m sure at some point in the past I said superciliously, “I’d NEVER use TV as a babysitter. I’d never let my kids watch hours of TV at a time.” Well, once again, my “I Never” has come to pass, and I’ve been knocked down a peg. One of the many lessons I’ve learned in parenting: Those “I Nevers” come back to haunt me. Or rather, taunt me.
June 17th, 2008 at 12:08 am
I am now singing the build a word song! It is catchy. Let’s hope I don’t go to sleep with that running through my head.