Comments on: Talking Down https://www.the-solute.com/talking-down/ A Film Site By Lovers of Film Wed, 25 Oct 2017 01:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: The_L1985 https://www.the-solute.com/talking-down/#comment-82311 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 01:24:00 +0000 http://www.the-solute.com/?p=23067#comment-82311 Oh, damn. I was sitting here thinking Doc McStuffins was an awesome thing, because it’s about a black girl who wants to be a doctor, just like her also-black mother. That’s awesome for a TON of reasons, but….ugh.

]]> By: The_L1985 https://www.the-solute.com/talking-down/#comment-82312 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 01:24:00 +0000 http://www.the-solute.com/?p=23067#comment-82312 In reply to DJ JD.

Dora the Explorer seems to be really good about not being terrible. Plus, it teaches a few useful words in Spanish.

]]> By: The Ploughman https://www.the-solute.com/talking-down/#comment-76563 Thu, 07 Sep 2017 03:13:00 +0000 http://www.the-solute.com/?p=23067#comment-76563 I, uh, learned something about atoms here!

Kids (and by that I mean “my kids” and at the moment more specifically “my 5YO”) are amazing at absorbing information and they sometimes combine that information in insightful and advanced ways, the way they might spin a puzzle piece six times without getting it to fit and other times click it into place on the first try. Knowing they (she) are (is) capable of this puts me on alert to put in useful information for later pieces to access. I’m not a very thorough regulator, as it’s tough for me to explain in 5YO terms why Paw Patrol is dumb af, but I try to show how much more interested I am in hearing about Ready, Jet, Go or Martha Speaks or something.

]]> By: DJ JD https://www.the-solute.com/talking-down/#comment-76031 Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:43:00 +0000 http://www.the-solute.com/?p=23067#comment-76031 We have a four-year-old boy, too, and we are similarly stumped by how to find educational programming that neither bundles unwanted messages in with their material, nor is dumb as a sack of rocks. Or rather, I should say we were similarly stumped, because one day my boy saw me playing Minecraft and pretty much ever since, all he wants to do is watch Minecraft videos on Youtube instead. Talk about not being able to handle some narrators…

]]> By: jroberts548 https://www.the-solute.com/talking-down/#comment-76008 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:42:00 +0000 http://www.the-solute.com/?p=23067#comment-76008 I bet that panda got gas along with his stomach ache.

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