Marjorie Kirk

We've got about a dozen of them; we love them! My youngest has been
listening to "Arabian Nights" evey night at bedtime for weeks now. They all
used to listen to the "Good Night" tape when they couldn't sleep. We
started with story tapes when my youngest was a year or two and even she
would really listen to the stories. Our library has a lot of them, you
might want to check here first to see how you like them.

Marjorie
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Hi,
Anyone familiar with these? How about for younger kids?
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In a message dated 10/11/2003 7:24:10 AM Central Daylight Time,
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> We
> started with story tapes when my youngest was a year or two and even she
> would really listen to the stories. Our library has a lot of them, you
> might want to check here first to see how you like them.
>

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Nicolas and Madeline Donck; Rains

I got a few at the S.C. conference and the "Good Night" ones put my boys
(and sometimes me) to sleep every night after we read to them. They are
great! They won't sit still to listen to the longer story CDs yet but
we'll be bringing them on a long trip soon.

Madeline







At 08:21 AM 10/11/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>We've got about a dozen of them; we love them! My youngest has been
>listening to "Arabian Nights" evey night at bedtime for weeks now. They all
>used to listen to the "Good Night" tape when they couldn't sleep. We
>started with story tapes when my youngest was a year or two and even she
>would really listen to the stories. Our library has a lot of them, you
>might want to check here first to see how you like them.
>
>Marjorie
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crystal.pina

I got half a dozen of the tapes at the conference. My kids are 13 and 14
and the 14-yo is too old for them, but my 13-yo daughter and I listen to
them when we're in the car. Just the other day I had my kids and my 8-yo
neice in the car and they were bickering so I didn't say a word, I just
popped one into the tape player and within minutes they were quietly
listening. Even the 14-yo didn't complain that I had turned it on.

Crystal

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> How about for younger kids?
>

We've listened and listened and listened to Animal Tales, which is great for
younger kids. And when mine were going through the King Arthur thing, he has
a great tape on that.

Elizabeth


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<< I got half a dozen of the tapes at the conference. My kids are 13 and 14

and the 14-yo is too old for them, but my 13-yo daughter and I listen to

them when we're in the car. >>

That's one way my kids are different. They aren't too old for very much at
all, nor did we consider them too young for much. I think there's a direct
relation.

I'm not trying to criticize the author/mom above, but I DO see in families
that say "Wait until you're old enough" that when the kids ARE "old enough" then
they're too old for the thing they were allowed to do.

We tried to offer the world as a smorgasbord and so there are some favorites
my kids will still taste. Raffi, for example. Maybe because their dad and I
enjoyed it too, and didn't say "turn off that baby stuff" or any such thing.

Holly has watched Teletubbies and Rocky Horror Picture Show both on the same
day, and knew the latter before the former was created. She watches them for
the music and the humor and the sets and costumes and production and she's
often doing something else at the same time--curling her ponies' tales or making
a bag out of Levis or drawing.

School kids, even more than kids who are given milestone permissions (not
until you're ten, not until you're 15, whatever), are told by the kids at school
what they may or may not like, what is cool and what is baby stuff.

We have so far managed to avoid that, but we have kids who will listen to
Dave Schmave or to the new Elmo stuff because as little kids they could watch
Stand By Me and The Adventures of Priscilla, the Queen of the Desert.

Sandra

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In a message dated 10/11/2003 10:09:35 AM Central Daylight Time,
ejcrewe@... writes:

> We've listened and listened and listened to Animal Tales, which is great
> for
> younger kids.

This is one of the ones I was looking at. My library doesn't have any in
CD's, only cassettes. Anybody know where I can find one cheap ? I already checked
vegsource and there aren' t any.
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Crystal

> School kids, even more than kids who are given milestone
permissions (not
> until you're ten, not until you're 15, whatever), are told by the
kids at school
> what they may or may not like, what is cool and what is baby stuff.
>>


I deal with this every day. My son went to school until two years
ago (he finished 6th gr) so he does have that mentality. It is tough
to get him to try things that he considers baby stuff or stupid or
not cool. We have a family calendar that I have all sorts of outings
listed on. I ask him which ones he'd like to be a part of and which
ones he'd rather not, so I can plan. Most times I just accept what
he chooses, but every so often I know he'll enjoy the outing, but he
will decline because he's too cool. Those are the ones I try to talk
him into trying "just once".

Two weeks ago, I took my 18 yo daughter to a farm to volunteer. This
is not just any farm, it is a farm that donates farm animals around
the world and it has mini villages set up like the villages where the
animals are going to go. It has a lot of unusual animals like water
buffalo and camels besides regular farm animals. There's nothing
babyish about a farm anyway unless you look at a farm the way it is
portrayed in baby books about farm animals (the cow says...). But,
my son was adamant that he wasn't interested in visiting a farm, so
my 18-yo daughter and I went alone. We came back with so many cool
stories that he agreed to try it out the next week. He went, and he
enjoyed himself. We helped out in the kitchen that day freezing
vegetables from the garden. Now he wants to go back.

The same thing happened at the zoo. My son only came with us because
he didn't want to stay home alone, but once we got there he wanted to
stay in the car and listen to music. So, fine. My 13-yo daughter
and I went in and we saw lots of stuff we knew he'd like so we went
back to the car and told him some of the animals we saw and THEN he
came out to see them. Once he got in there he was the one asking me
to wait while he looked at stuff a second time.

This is why I told the story about the kids in the car. When I first
got the tapes, we listened to one story. My son kept begging me to
turn on the radio instead because the stories were for little kids.
My daughter and I enjoyed the stories. I though maybe because we'd
seen Jim Weiss in person and he didn't. Anyway, that day in the car
that the kids were bickering, I just put the tape on and all three
settled down to listen. He didn't even ask me change it.

I bought my daughter a $100 pair of Timberland boots at a second hand
store for $6 in new condition! Actually, I bought them for him, but
now he doesn't want them. At first he told me he'd wear them if I
didn't tell anyone where I got them (no problem). Now he won't wear
them because the color is last year's color. Lucky for him they are
too big for him (Tim's run big) because I wouldn't have gotten him a
different pair just because he didn't like the color. In all
honesty, he is a lot LESS brand conscious than other kids I know and
I know that is because he has not gone to junior high or high school,
but it still is there. I bought him a hoodie (a sweatshirt with a
hood) the other day and he had a hard time picking one because it
couldn't have a zipper and it had to have pockets on the side, etc,
etc because that is what his friend has.

Like Holly, my 13-yo daughter has no problem watching Telletubbies
and Rocky Horror Picture Show in the same day. She is oblivious to
brand names. She loves farm animals and the zoo. I can only aspire
to this with my son.

Crystal

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In a message dated 10/11/03 10:07:38 AM, crystal.pina@... writes:

<< Like Holly, my 13-yo daughter has no problem watching Telletubbies

and Rocky Horror Picture Show in the same day. She is oblivious to

brand names. She loves farm animals and the zoo. I can only aspire

to this with my son.

>>

When I've had to deal with kids who didn't want to go (cousins or guests)
I've appealed to their adult feelings, and asked them to go with me to help with
the littler kids. I've said "You'll probably know some thing about tigers I
don't even know" or "The restaurant has some really cool carvings I think you'd
like, and we can come back sooner if you're really not having fun." I
recruit them as other adults instead of one of the kids, and then they forget,
usually. I have one nephew who's particularly recalcitrant, but his mom has been
reviewing his life lately in light of some stuff she's read on autism and says
maybe he's never much liked eye-contact/conversation/input stuff because of
something organic. Could be. He was functional but uncomfortable.

Sandra

Tia Leschke

>
>
>We've listened and listened and listened to Animal Tales, which is great for
>younger kids. And when mine were going through the King Arthur thing, he has
>a great tape on that.


Jim Weiss is *wonderful*, but also try to find some Jay O'Callahan. Some
of his stories are hilarious, to both adults and kids. He writes all his
own material, so it's a whole different thing from the story-telling Jim
Weiss does.
Tia

The Scanlons

Do you think I ought to be able to find Jim Weiss in England? This is the
first I've ever heard of him.

Thanks,
Sandy

Crystal

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<scanlon36@o...> wrote:
> Do you think I ought to be able to find Jim Weiss in England?
This is the
> first I've ever heard of him.
>
> Thanks,
> Sandy


I have a flyer of his. It says you can order online at
www.greathall.com, by phone (800)477-6234, fax (434)296-4490, or my
mail at Greathall Productions Inc., P.O. Box 5061, Charlotesville,
VA 22905-5061. Of course, these are if you live in the US. You
just have to convert it all to... (English?).

Crystal

Marjorie Kirk

>
>
> Jim Weiss is *wonderful*, but also try to find some Jay O'Callahan. Some
> of his stories are hilarious, to both adults and kids. He writes all his
> own material, so it's a whole different thing from the story-telling Jim
> Weiss does.
> Tia


We also enjoy Odds Bodkin Tapes.

marjorie