Babble

I really hate Dora too...I can't stand any of the shows for kids now. I wish shows like The Busy world of Ricahrd Scary and The Muppet Babies were still on. But all that said, my daughters absolute favorite dvd is The Fraggles...We have one dvd with two episodes. I can hear those stupid songs in my nightmares...It's awful...:::

I was stuck watching Dora with my little cousins before I had a kid of my own; here's how my aunt, my mom and I make it through an episode:

-Flat-out refuse to help her when she asks. This is obviously only fun until the kids are old enough to think you're mean, or that the baby bug is going to die because you wouldn't throw the friggin' rope. Then you have to do it out of ear shot.

-Mercilessly Mock Map. Pretend your head is exploding by the fourth time he repeats himself. Also After the long, repetitive, "I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map..." song, ask (very loudly) "WHO are you, again? I didn't catch your name..."

-Privately speculate on what Dora will be keeping in her backpack in later years. "Do you need... a life raft... acne cream... pepper spray... or a tampon?!!"

-Wonder (again, quietly) what the heck Dora's taking that causes her to only blink every 10 seconds.

Obviously this is the least mature way to get through Dora, but we laugh our asses off. And our sanity ramains relatively intact.

I'm going to hell, aren't I?

 

If you'd like to try something besides Dora, check out our show Dottie's Magic Pockets. You can watch a preview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwb4dozAJtY

I don't think there's any question that the most annoying "children's show" on tv is Tipi Tales....you can't possibly name another show historically that sends me into a more frenzied rage than this one....

I have to agree Dora does drive me crazy and I banned the program from our house after seeing one show.  I don't know what I can't stand more the show or all the merchandising that goes along with it.  Something just seems wrong when a toy store has an entire isle dedicated to her and she can be found on anything possible from a seasons worth of clothes and pjs to bandages to toothbrushes.  That kind of marketing to kids just makes me sick. 

That said we mainly watch disney in our house and I am thinking that little einsteins and mickey mouse clubhouse our doable, mainly beacause my daughter loves them and they will distract her for 30 minutes so I can make dinner or return a phone call (thank god for DVRs).

Reading these posts I just can't stop myself from plugging my own children's TV-station-on-the-web, which was developed in direct response to my own fear of Barney: www.bunnyears.tv The cartoons on BunnyEars TV are free to watch, free of advertising and represent some of the best, and certainly the most charming, children's animation in the world. I'd be grateful for any feedback from those of you in this thread - are we hitting the mark? ??? Judy....

I actually am kinda down with Barney and his messages about washing your hands, using your imagination, cleaning up and saying please & thank you.  I mean yes...the voice and songs are irritating (and I always think that one girl is a young Lindsay Lohan) but underneath I'm on board with the whole angle.

I don't MIND Dora, at least my son is interacting with the TV (even though I hear him get the answer to EVERY question wrong...sigh) ... I dig the Backyardigans!  I think their songs are super clever and once again ... love the imagination angle.

Franklin is kind of annoying, but the one that I really, really, really, REALLY can't stand, is that cheeky little bugger: THOMAS THE TRAIN.  I think there is some math calculation that parents' irritation level is equal to child's obsession level.  Why my son is so obsessed with Thomas, I don't know.  It's the most budget tv show I've ever seen and it is really creepy.  Like, REALLY.

And if you have ever read a Thomas book, it's like, WTF?!  The stories don't really have any point, and most of the trains are total a-holes.  But, the kid remains obsessed with all things Thomas/Percy/James/Gordon/etc....

 LOL! funny replies...you should watch Dora in SEVERAL LANGUAGES and you'd get a sense of how I feel!!  We're trying hard to teach our 2 year old our mother tongues (French and Chinese) in addition to English and Dora can be found in both...  Aaaaaghhh!  In case you wondered, the "second language" is always English.

 I hate dora too. My almost-2-year-old can spot a piece of Dora merchandising/product miles away before I can steer him away.

She's highly visible, that Dora.

But I'm not quite driven crazy by the aDORAtion (sorry).

What he REALLY likes are spheres; balloons, balls, the moon, the earth, the solar system.

He wants them so much he must possess them, he's gotta have them and if we pass some balloons, or some lamps shaped like balls, or anything, he'll let us know.

But so far, it's cute and not (yet) totally unbearable.

 

 

 

The show I really can't figure out is Max and Ruby.  Where are the parents and isn't Ruby a little young to be staying home watching Max alone and dragging him all over town???

My husband and I have come to the conclusion that Max and Ruby's mom is a crack horror down on the main drag and their dad is her pimp.  That is why grandma is taking care of them!!

 Re: Going to hell for mocking children's shows...Join the club! We've got jackets! There's bus loads of us going, believe me! (I call behind the driver!) I do this all the time, and I call it "Going to the Dark Side of the Muppets." LOL

I JUST HATE HER PLUS BARNEY! THEY'RE BOTH ANNOYING AND TRY TO GET YOUR KIDS!!!