Fart noises and where they can lead.
Sarah
I had an interesting conversation with my two boys (3 and 5) after supper while eating ice lollies...
We got onto fart noises, as you do, and I showed them how to make a really loud noise on their arms. Charlie (3) said 'that sounds like a trumpet' and I commented that you actually play a trumpet by blowing a raspberry into the mouthpiece (I think you do anyway - more or less!).
Jack (5) didn't believe me so I showed him footage of Louis Armstrong on YouTube. We moved on to other brass instruments (seeing them in his band and through links to other videos) and then spotted a cartoon linked to the video.
It turned out to be an ancient 'Betty Boop' cartoon with the music done by a very young Louis Armstrong and band- very strange video where Ms Boop is in a jungle being chased by 'savages' in grass skirts who try to cook her and her friends in a pot.
The 'savages' are frequently inter-cut with live footage of Armstrong and his band (the canibal cook stirring the pot relates to the drummer playing his drum for example)- references to their skin colour I assumed. He's singing 'I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you'.
Interesting talk about how ideas of what is acceptable/funny change over time. Jack asking why Armstrong would let them make him look scary and stupid.
So music, social history, ethics, humour... all from fart noises.
I doubt many people would think that making fart noises could lead there, and second because I think even fewer would consider a five year old capable of talking intelligently about that sort of thing.
It was nice, so I thought I'd share it.
Sarah
We got onto fart noises, as you do, and I showed them how to make a really loud noise on their arms. Charlie (3) said 'that sounds like a trumpet' and I commented that you actually play a trumpet by blowing a raspberry into the mouthpiece (I think you do anyway - more or less!).
Jack (5) didn't believe me so I showed him footage of Louis Armstrong on YouTube. We moved on to other brass instruments (seeing them in his band and through links to other videos) and then spotted a cartoon linked to the video.
It turned out to be an ancient 'Betty Boop' cartoon with the music done by a very young Louis Armstrong and band- very strange video where Ms Boop is in a jungle being chased by 'savages' in grass skirts who try to cook her and her friends in a pot.
The 'savages' are frequently inter-cut with live footage of Armstrong and his band (the canibal cook stirring the pot relates to the drummer playing his drum for example)- references to their skin colour I assumed. He's singing 'I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you'.
Interesting talk about how ideas of what is acceptable/funny change over time. Jack asking why Armstrong would let them make him look scary and stupid.
So music, social history, ethics, humour... all from fart noises.
I doubt many people would think that making fart noises could lead there, and second because I think even fewer would consider a five year old capable of talking intelligently about that sort of thing.
It was nice, so I thought I'd share it.
Sarah
Sandra Dodd
-=-I doubt many people would think that making fart noises could lead
there, and second because I think even fewer would consider a five
year old capable of talking intelligently about that sort of thing.-=-
I can make a fart noise with the palms of my hand. Some people can do
it with a palm in the armpit, but I never could do that one...
I think anything can lead to everything. Nice story!!
Sandra
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there, and second because I think even fewer would consider a five
year old capable of talking intelligently about that sort of thing.-=-
I can make a fart noise with the palms of my hand. Some people can do
it with a palm in the armpit, but I never could do that one...
I think anything can lead to everything. Nice story!!
Sandra
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Sarah
> I can make a fart noise with the palms of my hand. Some people can doI tried that (the palms one) but I can't make it work! Also that one where you put the heels of your hands together against your mouth...
> it with a palm in the armpit, but I never could do that one...
Oh the gaps you find in your knowledge when you try to pass on your precious heritage to your children ;)
S