Not if you find the good stuff. Today the boys watched some shows while I mopped all the floors. Well, one of them they watch in the morning while we get ready for school...bad, I know, but works for us. Anyhow they were watching Curious George, which is math and science based. There is always 2 little stories with lesson to learn-and real live people after showing the topic they were teaching. In one of them it was plumbing. See George was playing with a toy snake in the tub and it slithered down the drain, got in the pipes and clogged the kitchen sink. So the clever Man In The Yellow Hat had to call the plumber. George learned all about the pipes, drains, turning water off to the whole building, etc. He was told to load the dishwasher and found out that if you don't rinse the dishes, it gets clogged and you have to call the plumber back.
So all day Spencer has been asking about the plumber. "Do we have a plumber, mommy?" "I am going to be plumber when I grow up." After dinner, Spencer and Landon had their "cool tools" ( from George) which were their spoon and fork from dinner and were running around pretending to be plumbers fixing the drain.
We have also found a new show called Dinosaur Train, which is also science based. It is especially timely in our house since Spencer absolutely LOVES dinosaurs!! Every episode deals with a hypothesis and what happens when they test it. I had to chuckle when I walked into the room and heard a song with the words "every dinosaur poops." Yes, POOP was the topic of the day!!! Hysterical. The hypothesis was something about the body would get rid of what it did not use of the food we eat, and that was called poop. They even had a segment on after the cartoon part, as they do with Curious George, with a geologist talking about fossilized dinosaur poop. It looks like a big rock. So funny!
Makes me want to by the book "Everyone Poops."
Thank you PBS!
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I love PBS. It makes me feel less guilty about letting Liz watch TV.
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