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What Are Kids Watching on TV?
One of the latest developments in my life is that I've moved out of independent college life and into the loving, 6-armed home of my brother, his wife, and their daughter, Emma. I'm going to be real and say that I encourage Emma to watch television and leave me alone. Sometimes. Regardless, I was sitting with Emma yesterday evening watching Sprout. First things first, I would have rather the network be named, SEED, to accurately express the beginning of the plant life cycle, but I digress. Emma was tuned in to a program titled, Ni Hao, Kai-Lan. Which roughly translates, I'm told, by Google Language Tools, to "Hello, Kai-Lan". This is Mandarin. Emma is 2.
Follow me here. Let's be real and say that most parents of 2 year-olds are looking to the TV as a partial babysitter. If you take offense to this, or do not support this style of parenting, please stop reading this and rejoin your child at the Kumon Math and Science center. I very much so understand that Mandarin is THE language to learn in the world today. However, at least when I learned to count to 3 in Spanish via Zoe, that cluster-fuck of a Muppet on Sesame Street, at least mis padres knew what I was saying. All of the sudden Emma was attempting to say, "Let's dance", in Mandarin. I nor her parents know Mandarin above Ni-hao (hello) and XieXie (thank you). So, when Emma is chanting "power to the People(('s) Republic)", I guess we'll know why.
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