ET and Right Wing Book Ruiners
you know the halloween scene where ET is covered in a sheet, and he kind of penguin waddles around and points to a kid dressed up as yoda and says "home"? well playing games with anthony and adonna is a lot like that. (minus the yoda part, of course). i dont know why they have toys. all they want to do is run around with ladels, garbage bags (which i don't reccomend, can anyone say suffocation?) and cover themselves in bedsheets and run around as ghosts. but since they can't see, the "running" mimicks ET's halloween scene. Plus the height is about the same. Maybe this is a "you had to be there" kind of thing, but it was so funny. I couldn't stop laughing.
Sometimes, they are just too cute. Anthony says clock like "ka-lock". Cracks me up everytime, and when I laugh he laughs and it's great. I know I am loved. Anthony and Adonna jumped on me so much last night it was insane, and Anthony told me that he didn't want me to leave while I was singing him to sleep last night. Some days singing them to sleep is the favorite/best part of my day.
Ok, so this is going to offend a lot of people, but what else is new? A friend and I were talking the other night about how you can hear some of the most asinine bullshit when you listen to any "news" related show with a right wing spin. (yes, i know, there's no such thing as media bias, blah blah blah). Anyway, apparently there is a children's book that won a major award and libraries are banning it. I don't know the name of the book or why it's being banned, but this one woman was like "we get SO hypersensitive about what we let children see on tv, but what we should really be paying attention to is what we let our children read in books!" Woah, hey! A two year old child watching a love scene on basic cable at 7pm, and that same child reading the oh so sexist book The Giving Tree (example)are way different. (TGT is not so much sexist as it is symbolic....and I hate symbolism).
And most children at the age this book was intended for, (under 5) CAN'T READ! Or at least can't read well. Take Adonna for example. She's four and when she sees anything written out she just traces her finger over the words and makes up whatever she feels like. Most times it's about one of her relatives and playing outstide. While what she's actually reading is a note left for me or my work schedule. Not exactly the same.
And then this women went on about how she reads books like Babar to her two year old, and if she sees something she doesn't like in the book, she either crosses it out with a marker so her child won't see it or rips out the page. (GASP!!) To be fair, one of the things she crossed out was the part about Babar's mother being killed and I'll give her that one, because we all remember Bambi. But another thing she crossed out was that Babar got engaged to his cousin or something. Yeah, it's weird, and taboo, but it happens, and not just in the South. (Just kidding.) In other culters it's normal. And even if it wasn't, it's not like a toddler is going to make that connection. Unless they're really precocious, and if that's the case, why the hell are you reading them Babar instead of Dostoevsky?
I think what I find funniest is the woman's complaint about people are hypersensitive about tv and that she's hypersensitive about books. I don't think that's the case at all. I think in this era people are threatened by ideas and political correctness. There's this mindset that you can say what you want as long as it doesn't offend anyone else. It's really sad.
I also figure that as long as a two year old doesn't stumble upon a stack of playboys and decide to look through them, then nothing they read, including Babar is that bad. I mean, I'm sure the father just has the playboys so he can read the articles....
Sometimes, they are just too cute. Anthony says clock like "ka-lock". Cracks me up everytime, and when I laugh he laughs and it's great. I know I am loved. Anthony and Adonna jumped on me so much last night it was insane, and Anthony told me that he didn't want me to leave while I was singing him to sleep last night. Some days singing them to sleep is the favorite/best part of my day.
Ok, so this is going to offend a lot of people, but what else is new? A friend and I were talking the other night about how you can hear some of the most asinine bullshit when you listen to any "news" related show with a right wing spin. (yes, i know, there's no such thing as media bias, blah blah blah). Anyway, apparently there is a children's book that won a major award and libraries are banning it. I don't know the name of the book or why it's being banned, but this one woman was like "we get SO hypersensitive about what we let children see on tv, but what we should really be paying attention to is what we let our children read in books!" Woah, hey! A two year old child watching a love scene on basic cable at 7pm, and that same child reading the oh so sexist book The Giving Tree (example)are way different. (TGT is not so much sexist as it is symbolic....and I hate symbolism).
And most children at the age this book was intended for, (under 5) CAN'T READ! Or at least can't read well. Take Adonna for example. She's four and when she sees anything written out she just traces her finger over the words and makes up whatever she feels like. Most times it's about one of her relatives and playing outstide. While what she's actually reading is a note left for me or my work schedule. Not exactly the same.
And then this women went on about how she reads books like Babar to her two year old, and if she sees something she doesn't like in the book, she either crosses it out with a marker so her child won't see it or rips out the page. (GASP!!) To be fair, one of the things she crossed out was the part about Babar's mother being killed and I'll give her that one, because we all remember Bambi. But another thing she crossed out was that Babar got engaged to his cousin or something. Yeah, it's weird, and taboo, but it happens, and not just in the South. (Just kidding.) In other culters it's normal. And even if it wasn't, it's not like a toddler is going to make that connection. Unless they're really precocious, and if that's the case, why the hell are you reading them Babar instead of Dostoevsky?
I think what I find funniest is the woman's complaint about people are hypersensitive about tv and that she's hypersensitive about books. I don't think that's the case at all. I think in this era people are threatened by ideas and political correctness. There's this mindset that you can say what you want as long as it doesn't offend anyone else. It's really sad.
I also figure that as long as a two year old doesn't stumble upon a stack of playboys and decide to look through them, then nothing they read, including Babar is that bad. I mean, I'm sure the father just has the playboys so he can read the articles....