Leo Sayer Almost Makes Me Love The Wiggles

[wwfpooh]

If anything, considering how they learn about things at younger ages these days, they could be smarter!

 

[Redsonga]

If anything, considering how they learn about things at younger ages these days, they could be smarter!

Well, it depends on the sort of things you are talking about. Reading levels are very bad lately

 

[wwfpooh]

Well, it depends on the sort of things you are talking about.

Good point. Sadly, the things they're learning about would quite often be considered too "adult", honestly.

Reading levels are very bad lately

And that's the fault of who? The people who don't instill into their children a fondness towards the written word or kids who simply refuse to cooperate (but then again, there's a myraid of factors that could be effecting why they refuse to cooperate).

 

[Redsonga]

And that's the fault of who? The people who don't instill into their children a fondness towards the written word or kids who simply refuse to cooperate (but then again, there's a myraid of factors that could be effecting why they refuse to cooperate).

Well, there were always ones that would not learn, but most of my friends who had a hard time or hated reading hated it because of the teachers saying they could'nt do things right from the beginning. All this pushing might be doing more harm than good lately...

As for me, my parents read books to me when I was still in the incubator and never stopped from then on, so I linked reading books with good things at home rather than just lessons at school. So, because of that, even the books the school made us read were fun to me .

It's all about connections IMHO, connect it with love and fun and any lesson is easy . Connect it to making a little one feel like dirt and that is all they will ever feel (like me and math)

 

[wwfpooh]

It's all about connections IMHO, connect it with love and fun and any lesson is easy .

Agreed. You just got to make it something worthwhile and making it enjoyable is one of the best ways to do that.

Connect it to making a little one feel like dirt and that is all they will ever feel (like me and math)

Ditto (especially the math part). Sadly, when people make others feel like dirt, it resonates with them and leads them to be untrusting (as Stone Cold Steve Austin would say, "DTA: Don't Trust Anybody").

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Is there educational value in their programs? Probably not. But what's wrong with some good clean fun? When I was a kid, I watched shows like Sesame Street to learn while being entertained, even if I didn't know I was being educated at the moment. When I watched something like Tom and Jerry, I was merely being entertained...no harm done.

I can understand if you have no problem with the Wiggles. But I wouldn't compare it to Tom & Jerry personally. Tom & Jerry is entertaining personally to me. It's funny and well written despite there not being much dialog. Tom & Jerry just does not seem as mindless as the Wiggles does to me...

 

[wwfpooh]

Unlike The Wiggles--which really has no other intent other than mindless fun--shows like Tom & Jerry have the intent to inform people of possibly how a cat and mouse would think were they able to cognitively think rationally like we humans.

 

[Redsonga]

I dunno, I think of Tom and Jerry as mindless fun...Now the Tom and Jerry movie where they talk that was more a thinking movie about friendship

 

[wwfpooh]

I dunno, I think of Tom and Jerry as mindless fun...

But they do meow and squeek--their animal ways of talking--in numerous cartoons.

Now the Tom and Jerry movie where they talk that was more a thinking movie about friendship

I remember that! I even have a storybook about it.

 

[The Shoe Fairy]

I love Lazy Town, which is another just for fun sing along show (Yes, yes, with a really really handsome main superhero *hides*) because it mixes those songs with the idea that little kids actually have a brain and can learn good habits without "What do I have in my hand? Is it an apple? Yes it is? Can you say apple? C'mon, c'mon...Good boy!"

Gah! No Offense Redsonga, but that show makes me want to barf and cut myself simulatenously.It's just scary, I wouldnt want my kid watching bluescreened people in spandex. Its just to weird to be good for kids.
The wiggles probably aren't that good for kids, but they describe themselves as entertainers, not educators-(Sesame Workshop has a curriculum and everything,so that their programs can edu-tain if you will, kids.)