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What Danes consider healthy children’s television

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Re: What Danes consider healthy children’s television

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Post by gaius »

david-given wrote: post #58
tclancy wrote: post #14

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I am old enough (40) with a daughter who is almost 3, to be a little horrified by kids' TV. It's not that there isn't a ton of "good" stuff for her, it's that there is only "good" stuff. There isn't anything not geared toward teaching her math, reading or morals. When I was a kid, that was PBS and a handful of other shows and the rest of it was people whacking the crap out of each other to make me bug my parents to b…

Go look up some old British children's television. It was made in an era when... um... let's just say that it wasn't focus grouped. Chorlton and the Wheelies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Ng7VMqet0 Noggin the Nog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bKAYH3Sl8s The Trapdoor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eEXyg1lsZc Bod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfFoj-gFP2M Bagpuss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9beAp3TG…

Also we British think that Watership Down was a suitable cartoon for kids remember ;-)

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Post by conradfr »

skrebbel wrote: post #8

Kaj and Andreea is fantastic! I'm Dutch but my wife is Danish. She does her utmost best confronting our kids with Danish TV (we live in Holland), so I understand a bit of what the author is on about. I was initially surprised as well. Truth is, it _is_ entertaining! But most importantly, once you get past the absolutely amateuristic way things are shot (hey, the kids don't care, why should you?), there's a lot of dep…

That seems like Seinfeld for kids.

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Post by taneq »

themaninthedark wrote: post #171
DanBC wrote: post #153

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> There isn't anything not geared toward teaching her math, reading or morals. ...and those wouldn't be so bad if they were not terrible at teaching math or reading or morals.

In a topic about good children's TV, morals are brought up and no one remembers Mr. Roger's Neighborhood? As a child I never watched TV with any regularity but that and Sesame Street stick out in my mind above all the cartoons and other shows I watched.

I never saw that as a kid but now we have Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood which apparently is a continuation of sorts. I find it almost condescendingly heavy on the moralizing and turning everything into a 'teachable moment' but then again I'm not exactly the target audience.

Re: What Danes consider healthy children’s television

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Post by tclancy »

marssaxman wrote: post #147
nightpool wrote: post #128

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Wait, did I read this wrong? Limiting the daily screen time to "no more then 24 hours" reads like a tongue in cheek joke, because there are only 24 hours in a day.

Yeah, I thought that was a hilarious way to point out that it's none of anyone else's business.

Just to close the loop, yeah I did mean to say I'm an awful parent so feel free to ignore anything I wrote. Not quite sure how it slipped through anyone's sarcasm filter but now I'm trying to imagine someone who can imagine a small child staying awake for 24 hours.

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Post by iammyIP »

asjo wrote: post #167
iammyIP wrote: post #155

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'childrens' is 'more correct' because it makes the most grammatical sense. Since it's genitiv, why would you apostrophe it, add another character for what reason? Whose ball is it? The dogs ball. Whose exhaust is it? It's the rockets exhaust. The apostrophe is used to mark silent letters inbetween the slew of two words. It is -> It's ~ It(i)s.

Obligatory Bob the Angry Flower educational cartoon link: http://www.angryflower.com/247.html See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive_case

That flower's partially wrong. I disagree with the angry flowers possesive case. The apostrophe in possesive case is confusing and illogical.

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Post by iammyIP »

sixhobbits wrote: post #187
iammyIP wrote: post #155

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'childrens' is 'more correct' because it makes the most grammatical sense. Since it's genitiv, why would you apostrophe it, add another character for what reason? Whose ball is it? The dogs ball. Whose exhaust is it? It's the rockets exhaust. The apostrophe is used to mark silent letters inbetween the slew of two words. It is -> It's ~ It(i)s.

The apostrophe is used to indicate genitive in English. I think you're thinking of the more subtle double genitive case that you sometimes see in examples like "A brother of the man's" (double genitive) instead of "a brother of the man" (normal genitive). English is strange, but you can indicate the genitive with either the "of" construction, or the apostrophe.

It doesn't make any sense to put an apostrophe on a noun just because it's genitive, this is just a recent typographical fad.

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Post by asjo »

iammyIP wrote: post #196
asjo wrote: post #167

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Obligatory Bob the Angry Flower educational cartoon link: http://www.angryflower.com/247.html See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive_case

That flower's partially wrong. I disagree with the angry flowers possesive case. The apostrophe in possesive case is confusing and illogical.

That's fine, but that's how english works.

Re: What Danes consider healthy children’s television

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Post by iammyIP »

asjo wrote: post #198
iammyIP wrote: post #196

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That flower's partially wrong. I disagree with the angry flowers possesive case. The apostrophe in possesive case is confusing and illogical.

That's fine, but that's how english works.

I would refactor this.
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