The thing about spending most of your time with a four year old is that you find yourself doing odd things just to keep your charge entertained. I’ve done walking, play parks, bike rides and swimming, most of which I wouldn’t do at home. And I have watched a lot of children’s TV. Programs like Strawberry Shortcake, Rupert The Bear, Inspector Gadget, Teletubbies, Timothy Goes To School, LazyTown, Rainbow Fish, Fireman Sam and finally Dora The Explorer.
I LOVE Dora The Explorer.
It’s a pop-up book right there on your TV; bright, colorful, fun, entertaining and if it can engage my attention for twenty-five minutes then it’s pretty good. I don’t sit there and sing along or hug myself when prompted, but it’s great and I wish it were on when I was a kid. It has, though, led me to question my memory of certain childhood stories.
I was under the impression that in the story of the three little pigs the wolf eats the two pigs after he blows their houses down. In Dora the pigs run to the house made of bricks and everyone’s happy except the peckish wolf.
The other one is Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I thought the bears killed Goldilocks after they found her in the smallest bears’ bed and it would serve the thieving little bitch right if I’m remembering things correctly. Again, in Dora The Explore Goldilocks apologies to the three bears and all of a sudden they’re the best of friends. It’s well known that wild bears can’t stand small blonde girls, let alone small blonde girls that break into their home and eat their porridge.
I’ve not made a secret in my life of the fact that I don’t know many nursery rhymes and even fewer children’s stories but these are two that I thought I knew. And I don't know any more.
Oh well, such is life. Maybe I'll learn some if I have my own children one day...
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They've cleaned up the fairy-stories for the more sensitive parents of today (not the children, who love a bit of blood and a moral).
The original versions of Little Red Riding Hood or Hansel and Gretel are actually quite horrible and gory - much more so than the versions in the Ladybird books.
And here's a link to more discussion on this kind of thing. Disney is particularly guilty, I mean in the original Little Mermaid story Ariel dies at the end.
Here's the link
But Disney made a Little Mermaid Two! I know this because I sat through it the other day...
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