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I am a mother of a beautiful son and daughter, a full time worker for a mortgage company and a musician on the side playing piano and organ for local churches/schools/professional groups. I also have a wonderful husband who is a stay at home dad (a.k.a. SAHD)!

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

No More Caillou!

Sorry for those of you who lets their kid watch the PBS kid's show "Caillou", but we're in the midst of detoxing Nathan from watching this show. My co-workers and some church members told me that they don't let their kids watch Caillou because it's stupid, non-educational and Caillou is so whiny. Boy, were they right. I hate it that he whines so much and doesn't say "please" and "thank you". And what's worse is that the parents never correct him. Ever since Dan started letting Nathan watch Caillou, he's gotten more whiny and he's stopped saying Please and Thank You. There was one episode where Caillou was scared to sleep in his bed at night, so he climbed in his parent's bed and started making up every excuse to not sleep in his room (he's thirsty, he's scared of the scary monster, etc.). Well, these days Nathan has been coming in our room wanting to sleep in our bed. I'm totally against co-sleeping, so we would put him back in his bed, but he used the same excuses that Caillou said (thirsty, scared of the monster, etc.). He would scream so much to sleep in our bed, we had to lock him in his own room. His sudden change in behavior and this whole escapade got me so mad that we have now banned the show from our house. He's going through Caillou withdrawl, but he'll survive....there's plenty of other educational shows out there without the kids whining!

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

ooh my goodness. it's a bit scary how impressionable they are at that age. Merry Christmas! you and D and N are in my thoughts.. I love reading your blog... and watching N grow up.. He's such a BIG boy!

-:) Mia

12/25/2007 6:43 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey, i'm going to be in town next week! let's meet up.

12/26/2007 10:38 AM  
Blogger Soo said...

Hey Ihna. It is nice to know we are not the only ones going through what we are with Caleb... although, I wouldn't want you or anyone to go through this. Caleb loves Caillou and Josh can't stand the show. Josh says Caillou is so whiny. Caleb knows that if he whines, he doesn't get anything... we ignore him. He is still saying please and thank you. I guess we'll have to keep an eye on Caleb's behavior and see if it is starts affecting him like it did Nathan. thanks for the heads up!

12/26/2007 12:05 PM  
Blogger yellowinter said...

hmm... note taken. thank you. never knew that about caillou.

12/26/2007 8:57 PM  
Blogger Allie said...

I banned Caillou too. Horrible show. Horrible. Nathan will be better off... you made the right choice. ;)

12/27/2007 12:56 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Boo Canadian TV shows and whiny kids!

7/07/2008 2:20 AM  

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