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In a message dated 09/08/2001 11:05:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> Teletubbies has some very cool geography videos, and they show them twice.
> So if there's one Holly thinks I'd really like, she can go and get me and
> we
> can watch the whole thing together.
>
> She likes to look at how the thing was produced---how the costumes work,
> how
> the sets work (doors and slides and such) and discuss what they're trying
> to
> teach babies with this or that scene. She's not watching it as a baby
> would.
> She's watching it as someone who's interested in theatre and TV production
> and education would.
>
>
>

I think sometimes the issue isn't whether something has educational value. Of
course virtually everything does. And even if it didn't, life will go on if
everything is NOT educational. Maybe we obsess about that a bit too much.

I think sometimes you get back to the respect thing: I, for example, just
find Teletubbies totally creepy and it makes my skin crawl. If Julian (who
feels strongly that I need to mention that he has never wanted to) wanted to
watch it when I wasn't around, I'd certainly have no problem with that. But
if I was doing something in the living room first, I'd assume I had the right
to veto that. On the other hand, if I wanted to watch something he didn't
like and he was there first, he'd have veto power.

Of course, this whole thing rarely comes up. I'm babbling...
Kathryn





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