Experimenting on our child…
Sep. 20th, 2010 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
almostwitty
As befits a child who will be born to two geeky parents, we have come up with our first environmental experiment…
If you sing “Can you tell me how to get?” to a bunch of 30-year-olds, American or British, we’ll sing the rest of the song: “To Sesame Street!”. Big Bird, The Count (“Ha! Ha! Ha!”), Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, and of course the character who has given the Internet the phrase Nom Nom Nom – The Cookie Monster.
But Sesame Street was never particularly loved by the British TV establishment. According to the BBC News Magazine, the BBC rejected it in the 1970s because of its’ “authoritarian aims” (because learning to count and get along with people of all creeds and types is such a terrible idea) so it hasn’t been seen on British TV screens since 2001, and it’s unlikely to come back.
So here’s the experiment. When my wife forces our kid (aka WeaponX) to watch the occasional episode of Sesame Street, and then he/she goes to kindergarten – will WeaponX start talking about Sesame Street? And if so, will the other kids shun him/her for doing so?
It’s a toughie.
Mirrored from almost witty.
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Date: 2010-09-20 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-20 07:26 pm (UTC)...plus Will 'O The Wisp, Thomas The Tank Engine and Monkey! :D
I know a friend of mine who did work experience at a nursery when we were at High School nearly 2 decades ago and told me that some of the kids there (inn the middle of Scotland) had American accents due to being left to watch nothing but American kids TV programs all day by their parents.
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Date: 2010-09-20 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-20 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-20 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-30 10:47 pm (UTC)Was "reception" and "playgroup" when I was in school.
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Date: 2010-09-20 07:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-20 02:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-20 05:21 pm (UTC)wait.. Thete will be about *GRINS*