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My two year old loves being read to and I love reading. Problem is, I already know what happens at the end of the Cat in the Hat so it gets a little old after reading it fifty times.
Reading my morning news to her is obviously out of the question because I don't want her to know the world sucks.
Let them enjoy the blissful ignorance of youth, right?
Bottom line, a newspaper or website that encodes news so it can be read to children who you don't want to scare to death, but in such a way that adults will still get the point.
"A natural phenomenon called an earthquake, where the ground shakes because of natural movement of the Earth's crust, leaves 12,998,051 people unhurt and alive out of a population of 13,000,000 in the Pacific. Many good people fly there to help. Barney unhurt in incident."
a tv programme for older kids
http://www.cjetech....atched_it/jcnr.html
[po, Aug 14 2005]
The modern Newsround
http://news.bbc.co....bbcnews/default.stm
as shown by [po] [dbmag9, Aug 14 2005]
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(...and a blatant self promotion) [krelnik, Aug 15 2005]
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PS: "However, numerous Muppet casualties have been reported." |
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I love it! I think the op-ed page in most newspapers is already childish enough though, so don't change that. I'd also suggest that the advice column be limited to answering questions about different ways of cleaning up spilt milk, making Power Rangers helmets out of papier mâché, and other similarly innocent dilemmas. I have a hunch that stories about men stealing their wives' paychecks to buy jewelry for their mistresses will just make kids cry. |
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Sue Nommi visits tie land. (+) |
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Funny...until I remembered that children *want* to be scared. |
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Anternately, children want to bust out laughing. |
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You could just read them a tabloid, but this is better [+]. |
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And then, [doctorremulac3] lived happily ever after, eating all the croissants people had given him. |
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And they could put the funnies on the front page, and the crazy politicians in the Humor section. |
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Actually why dont newspapers print serialised kids stories in the funnies section that you can read to your kids every night. Instead of reading the same crap over and over again. |
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I think that if one full page of the newspaper had a 1st grade level synopsis of the news, with pictures, it would be good for this and also for folks learning english as a second language. |
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//I think that if one full page of the newspaper had a 1st grade level synopsis of the news, with pictures// I've seen this at airports - called "USA Today", I think. |
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There is simply no shortage of dumbed-down news. |
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And, if you really have a shortage of interesting things to read to your toddler, just pickup anything that you enjoy, and read it to them. It's all about the tone of voice, and the energy you have to share more than the actual content. |
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sorry. the previous anno! |
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"Po finds lack of Garbage!"
"Experts are at a loss as to the dissapearance of most of the world's trash supply. Investigations are being followed." |
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DesertFox acts satirically.
World awaits po and the other tellytubbies' response. |
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As for "garbage", well, have you tried? My 18 month toddler loves "stories", and seems enthralled when I read any of the following to him: |
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1. Street signs
2. Newspaper headlines
3. Dilbert cartoons
4. Magazines
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Just read the headline, and ask him to point to letters "Where's the B? Good! Where's the K? No, there it is....". In between, you can read the fine print as much as you want to keep yourself interested. |
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But this idea dumbs down real news, which is something that already happens and I find disgusting in democracies. Fishbone/croissant here is pretty subjective, and I'm allowed to differ, and have you think I'm a fool. I don't mind. |
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I voted for this, but I think [sophocles] makes a good point. To our peril, we forget that the human larval stage should be challenged and thus advanced, as well as cherished and protected.
I still love this for *really* young tots, but once they start to attend school, older, crueller kids are just going to tear down all your carefully hung Drapes of Delight and expose the rotten view through the Bay Windows of Reality anyway, so you may as well get there first and break it to them gently. "We'll start with this fat, jolly chap here. Yes 'Father Christmas'..." |
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ah, soph. now that made better sense. it was the thought that you were in some way fooling the children that I objected to but yes, I agree - children can be entertained by enthusiasm whatever it is you are enthusing about. |
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<mumbling from behind a newspaper in a very deep chair> I thought the Grimm brothers baked this a couple of years ago? |
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[etherman]'s idea is fully baked in our own local rag; there's a serialized story running there. I have no idea what it is lately, but there's been a story running in (I think) twice-weekly installments for at least the last five years. |
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You would have to write articles that pre-empt all the "why's": |
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A big wave drownded many people on the underneath bit of the globe today. Because there was a big bang under the sea that pushed up the water. Because two bits of the earth were pushing past each other in opposite directions and had an accident. Because we live on these floaty bits of ground that move about on top of the planets melty middle. Because we live on a lump of cooling down rock left over from the explosion that made the universe. We don't know. |
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//we don't know// "why, daddy?" |
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Because the entire set of human knowledge is bounded by what we can deduce or infer using our limited five senses. Parts of our existence will therefore be forever unknowable. It's time for bed now, no more questions. |
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Oh, waggy. I'll print that out and keep on a card in my wallet for emergencies. |
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//It's time for bed now, no more questions.// |
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Whoa, creepy. Thats my favourite chat up line. |
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