For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 07, 2012

Reminds me of Calvin’s wanting of his father to read “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie.”

…thought he already WAS a screaming weirdo…

(kidding folks. its a joke, don’t get in a twist!)

One of the reasons, John, that small children insist on having the same stories read over and over to them and on watching the same movies over and over again is that that’s how they learn — by constant repetition of what’s familiar to them. Small children hate any disruptions to their daily routine, and they are NOT good at adapting to change. It may drive their parents crazy, but that’s just the way it is.

“Go Dog Go” was the bane of my existence.

How could he resist against adorable, blond-haired Lizzie who simply wants her favorite story read to her? She’s sitting there so intently, sucking on her fingers…raptly inerested. Maybe…once in a while…John could switch up the story to another duck tale…my fave…Darkwing Duck! WoW!

Whomever thought to have a duck garbed in a purple cape and mask and uttering ’Let’s get dangerous!!!!’ was definitely aiming at an adult female audience.

I once taped six hours’ worth of “Arthur” for a friend of mine’s kids. They watched that incessantly.

Wasn’t half as annoying as their watching the same episodes of “Spongebob Squarepants” and “The Fairly Oddparents” twice a day, five days a week. Some shows don’t hold up well to even one airing, let alone ten.

At least it will keep her quiet for a little while.

Ha!! Baby Horror Villain: I NEVER thought of doing something like that; what a great idea! And now that I’m old enough to be a Grama……

I read “It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny” about PJ funny bunny to my twin grandsons until I knew it by heart and could quote it without even looking at the book……..but that being said……….they loved that book and I would have read it to them every hour just to see the look of total delight on their faces. They are 15 now but Mom still has that copy of the book put away and I plan on reading it to their children one day, God willing.

I refused to read Dick and Jane when I was six

When she isn’t around, take the book and hide it.

My mom recorded all the little books on cassettes, with a bell ring for turning the pages, for my son.

I wrote a children’s story about my great-great grandfather and all the ids in my extended family insist I recite it for them.

I read “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” to my little brother so many times I can still—40 years later—recite it.

My sister was the same way with Fox in Socks,,talk about a tongue twister!!

cute… been there!

My son when he was little loved Danny and the Dinosaur.

Yep those adults have such short attention spans! Anyone who thinks toddlers have short attention spans have never raised any! They will play the same game or read the same book ad infinitum! My youngest is 18 – I miss the toddler years

I know – read her “Put Me in the Zoo.” Or “Green Eggs and Ham.” Or maybe, “Yertle the Turtle.”Ah, childhood. Of course much of that was in Second Grade, but still…

At Christmastime, a local radio station plays that song (the whole song), I think it’s called “Mr. Grinch.” Sung by the late Boris Karloff, spectacularly funny. I’d like to find a CD of that, if possible.

I don’t give a quack what he says

“In the great green roomthere was a telephoneand a red balloonand a picture of…The cow jumping over the moon.”

Got to say anyone that use to read to their kid know one book by heart. My kids was forest hotel and she is 32 now and I am 66 it is one of the few books I remember

When the youngest grandkid was three or four, she had to watch Mamma Mia! every single night before bedding down for the night.

I got so tired of Cat In The Hat, that I swore I would never read it again. Then Hollywood makes a @#&*$ movie!!! Thank goodness I didn’t have to sit through that!

Enjoy it while you can, dad – before you know it, she’ll be grown and you’ll be wishing you had your little girl to snuggle and read with. Even if you have to read the book five million times.

I started changing a word here and there to see if they’d notice — they did! As they got a bit older and could appreciate the joke, I’d change a lot of words; Curious George became Obnoxious Herbert.

Make sure to get the kids hooked on something fun like the Just So stories and it won’t be so painful.

The love of her daddy reading her favorite story to her over and over again is probably why Lizzie grew up to become a teacher.

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish is all i have to say.

If I had children that age, I’d go to YouTube and copy the many Silly Symphonies, Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny etc. and burn them to a DVD for the kids.

Good ….. Night……Moon.

Ding Dong Ducky sounds good to me. I luv to see the movie

My two favorite childhood books were Peter Rabbit and The Owl and the Pussycat.