Me and Becky had our nephew round for the night last night. Its the first time we've had him overnight and although it was stressful (you can never really relax), it was great fun with it. He's 18 months old and at the great age where he's not only really good fun (anyone who can kick a ball instantly become fun, and its great when he uncontrollably giggles!) but he doesn't chat back either - not at least with anything I can make sense of.
In much the same way I wonder how people survived without tv remotes and mobile phones, just how did people get by before the TV channel Cbeebies came about? Sure you had kids tv, but never quite on demand like it is now. I'd love to know the science behind how it works, as they've managed to engineer the content on the channel so it instantly grabs the kid's attention (much like that Whiskers advert use to with cats). There was a show on there being narrated and presented by Martin Clunes (of Men Behaving Badly fame). I'm sure my nephew didn't have a clue what Clunes was chatting about, but he was gripped. Yet I can be sure that if I flicked the channel over to ITV1 so Doc Martin was on (also starring Clunes) he wouldn't want to know about it.
I realise there is a lot of talk in the media at the moment about kids watching too much tv, but I can hardly blame the parents. Cbeebies is like the magic bullet for almost any situation. If he's getting restless or agitated, flick it on and he's happy. Whats more, it looks like it's designed to teach as well - bonus!
One final thing.. nothing - not even numerous amount of visits to dodgy Glastonbury Festival toilets - can prepare you for the task of changing a nappy after a kid has really gone to town in it. Heck, I was only watching. That was bad enough! Poor old becks was changing it and I don't think she knew whether to laugh or cry. She chose hysterics.
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