Tiresome tales
June 21, 2013

tiresometales[Watching children’s TV]

That was really funny mum – Ryan the Lion was just telling a really boring story about putting the bins out and when he’d finished Kay said, “That was different.” Then Ryan said “Do you want me to tell you the story about when I watched some paint dry?” And Alex said, “Let’s watch some Driver Dan.” Then Ryan said, “I’ll take that as a yes!” And he carried on telling the story anyway!

Speed of delivery
June 20, 2013

speeddelivery[On the school Fronter system, when a pop-up asks whether we want to allow an .exe file to run]

Mum: Do we want a program to run?

Boy: No! Press cancel! When you get a message like that, you HAVE to say ‘no’. Otherwise it will run – you know like the Coach tells us to run in PE?

Mum: Yes?

Boy: Well it will run like that – and that’s bad. DON’T let it run.

Facing animated fears
June 12, 2013

watchingscoobyFACING ANIMATED FEARS
“We watched Scooby-Doo.”
Age 5

That’s you and me, on the sofa, with the mat thing and the cushions [right] and that’s the telly with Scooby Doo and his friend in it [left].

Having a giggle
May 3, 2013

havingagiggleSon: In Gigglebiz on CBeebies people are always cooking and, every time they cook, they put one of Tony’s things in – like his old boots, or his socks, or his tie, or his trousers!

Mum: That wouldn’t taste very nice would it?

Son: No – and do you know why they do it? Because it’s on Gigglebiz and that’s where they do lots of stuff that’s funny – lots of silly stuff!

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