http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/09/babylinks-8.html A dad's eye view of baby and toddler stuff Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:05:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/09/babylinks-8.html/comment-page-1#comment-34276 anjii Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:59:58 +0000 http://www.thingamababy.com/?p=4008#comment-34276 I found out about Reading Rainbow last night on CommonSenseMedia.org, and have been fuming about it ever since. I'm composing a blog post about it right now in my head! This and Mister Rogers are Wyatt's absolute favorite shows, and in addition to exposing us to books we may never have found otherwise, he learns so much each episode about the topic subject. Many of which are subjects that don't come up in our daily lives or the books we currently have. It is one of the most well-rounded shows for kids I've ever seen, and like Mister Rogers, it was never dumbed down. It was clearly written under the assumption that kids are intelligent and eager to learn. So many shows these days seem to think kids need to be "tricked" into learning :( I'm terribly disappointed to see this show go. I found out about Reading Rainbow last night on CommonSenseMedia.org, and have been fuming about it ever since. I’m composing a blog post about it right now in my head! This and Mister Rogers are Wyatt’s absolute favorite shows, and in addition to exposing us to books we may never have found otherwise, he learns so much each episode about the topic subject. Many of which are subjects that don’t come up in our daily lives or the books we currently have. It is one of the most well-rounded shows for kids I’ve ever seen, and like Mister Rogers, it was never dumbed down. It was clearly written under the assumption that kids are intelligent and eager to learn. So many shows these days seem to think kids need to be “tricked” into learning :( I’m terribly disappointed to see this show go.

]]> http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/09/babylinks-8.html/comment-page-1#comment-34265 Kara Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:21:10 +0000 http://www.thingamababy.com/?p=4008#comment-34265 I'd say Neil Gaiman is more of a Fantasy author, rather than sci-fi. And it is kid related, after all he writes kid's books too. I’d say Neil Gaiman is more of a Fantasy author, rather than sci-fi. And it is kid related, after all he writes kid’s books too.

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