Something Fun for Kids
We spent two days in the last week doing "something fun for kids". We've been to Chuck E. Cheese, the "local" (one-hour drive) science museum twice, Krispy Kreme, Tim Hortons, and probably more that I can't remember. It's almost been like vacation around here, only we did have school four days last week, and we didn't spend any money on a hotel.
The science museum we go to is pretty good. Of course there is the usual complaint about somehow including evolution in a large percentage of the displays and signs, but the kids mainly just play there. There's also an area just for kids kindergarten age and under. The signs in this area for parents to read are a little more factual than the signs in the children's museum we go to in another city (see the post on February 07, "Helpful Hints" - I tried to link from here to there, but couldn't figure it out). As you can see, it annoys me to no end to be given parenting advice from child development "experts" like the people they have working at these children's museums.
Something else we've been doing this week that is also apparently fun for kids, is watching the "Charlie Brown Christmas" video over and over again. We got it from the library and the boys saw it for the first time. Of course, my husband and I saw it a number of times many moons ago. But it's brand new to the kids. They laugh hilariously at the part when Snoopy is mimicking Lucy. This Peanuts show is about 40 years old, so it is pretty good.
One time we got a Peanuts video at the library about space where all the gang become astronauts and go into orbit. One of them looks at the earth from space and notices there are no lines on earth marking out where the countries are, and starts talking about how wouldn't it be great if the earth really had no borders. They talked about ways to save the environment, and called each other names like stupid and idiot (more than the usual "you're a blockhead, Charlie Brown" name-calling). I didn't notice when this video was made, but I would guess it was made in the last 10-15 years based on the content.
The science museum we go to is pretty good. Of course there is the usual complaint about somehow including evolution in a large percentage of the displays and signs, but the kids mainly just play there. There's also an area just for kids kindergarten age and under. The signs in this area for parents to read are a little more factual than the signs in the children's museum we go to in another city (see the post on February 07, "Helpful Hints" - I tried to link from here to there, but couldn't figure it out). As you can see, it annoys me to no end to be given parenting advice from child development "experts" like the people they have working at these children's museums.
Something else we've been doing this week that is also apparently fun for kids, is watching the "Charlie Brown Christmas" video over and over again. We got it from the library and the boys saw it for the first time. Of course, my husband and I saw it a number of times many moons ago. But it's brand new to the kids. They laugh hilariously at the part when Snoopy is mimicking Lucy. This Peanuts show is about 40 years old, so it is pretty good.
One time we got a Peanuts video at the library about space where all the gang become astronauts and go into orbit. One of them looks at the earth from space and notices there are no lines on earth marking out where the countries are, and starts talking about how wouldn't it be great if the earth really had no borders. They talked about ways to save the environment, and called each other names like stupid and idiot (more than the usual "you're a blockhead, Charlie Brown" name-calling). I didn't notice when this video was made, but I would guess it was made in the last 10-15 years based on the content.
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