Have any of you had the distinct displeasure of ever watching PBS' Calliou?
Unfortunately, Jane loves it. It's very recent that her fascination began with the program, but if I insist on nap time before Calliou, I am met with weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Calliou (the 3-year-old cartoon) drives me insane. His voice is high pitched and show me a 3-year-old who 100 percent of the time meets his/her mother's request with an "OK, Mommy" on the first try.
But his mother is the one that really gets my dander up.
I know. She's a cartoon. She's a cartoon with a toddler who acquiesces to her requests sweetly on the first try.
I don't care. Let's try to be slightly more realistic, shall we? Put a Diet Coke or something in her hands. As a mother of two toddlers, I need to know that even this fictional cartoon who exists merely to teach fundamental manner lessons to my 2-year-old has coping mechanisms. I mean, throw me a bone. I have to watch the show too.
It's like on Monday. With her baby already sick with the flu, this is how she responded when she discovered Calliou was now sick as well: "Oh. I think you have the flu too." Calm. Collected. With a smile on her face.
Whatever.
You can't tell me at the back of her pretend mind, this mother was not thinking, "fabulous. Two sick babies. Please will this day end!" while she soothed her child with all her compassion and made him as comfortable as possible.
After which, of course, she retreated to the kitchen to sneak some chocolate cake and a Diet Coke as coping mechanisms.
3 comments:
Love the photo of you and Lane.
We just discovered Caillou on YouTube after being home with colds. What I kept wondering was, "what in the heck is Caillou's mom wearing? why does it look so bad on her? why does she wear it everyday?" On the other hand, maybe it is an accurate representation of a post-baby body, for those episodes after Rosie is born...
Caillou is one of those cartoons that no child or mother should watch. It makes the mothers feel guilty, and it makes the children feel entitled to every sympathy. Where's the "snap out of it!", or, "rub some dirt on it and get on with it!"? The show makes me itch! I think I might be getting a hive just writing about it.
Post a Comment