When television channels collide
August 10, 2008
The most popular channels at our house are Discovery, History, Nikelodeon, and Disney. Sometimes Miles has a hard time keeping them straight. But just because I haven’t seen SpongeBob hosting an episode of Dirty Jobs doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.
Three Year Old: Mom, how fast do the Cheetah Girls run?
Me: I don’t think they run so much as sing, baby.
Three Year Old: They are CHEETAH GIRLS. How fast do they RUN? (Said with extra loud emphasis so that my feeble brain could comprehend the obvious question.)
Me (sensing there is no point in arguing): Very fast. I think they run very fast.
Three Year Old: Cool.
Posted by Chris @ 7:52 am
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Sometimes, I am very comfortable with our decision not to get cable…we get enough silly questions around here as it is.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:56 amThat is just like something my son (also 3) would say. Except he would have added a “Mom” in there-a title he only uses when he’s exasperated with me.
August 10th, 2008 at 11:51 amVery Cute.
August 10th, 2008 at 12:33 pmMy brother (around the age of 4 or 5) once asked, “if the pope is bigger than a king, and there are king-sized candy bars, is there such a thing as pope-sized candy bars?”
He does have a point… they’re Cheetah Girls, they must run fast. I’m wondering how well the guys from Smash Lab sing?
August 10th, 2008 at 2:37 pmI hear the Cheetah Girls aren’t as fast as Hannah Montana. But, now that I think about it, the article I read on this might have meant a different kind of fast.
August 10th, 2008 at 4:45 pmDon’t you just love it when we, the parents, are the ones missing the obvious questions? If only they understood that’s how we feel when we ask them to do something umpteen million times before it actually gets done.
August 10th, 2008 at 4:53 pmMy seven year old Munchkin loves “How Clean is Your House” on BBC America and “Deadliest Catch.” In fact when she was having her arm set in the ER, she asked the nurse to change the channel from Charlotte’s Web to Deadliest Catch!
August 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pmI can’t wait to see their track suits.
August 10th, 2008 at 7:20 pmSometimes it’s best to just agree. Don’t you think? (hehe)
August 10th, 2008 at 7:51 pmoh three year olds. Mine told me that when he grows up to be a big boy, he is going to be a girl.
oh good news on the invisibility cloak -
August 10th, 2008 at 9:05 pmhttp://www.comcast.net/articles/news-science/20080810/SCIENCE-CLOAKING-DC/
Oh thank you, I am not the only stupid mother on the planet who’s 3-year-old has to repeat questions for.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:05 amLOL Aren’t three year olds the best? Mine told me today that her fever “stings” and that she needed to use shampoo and ‘ditioner so her babysitter could smell her when she got here.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:38 amyou will love this one— My dad 74yo was watching the Cheeta’s with my kids. He yells at me — Hey Rudy Huxtable is no girl— how is a 40 year old playing a kid? Ok, so he has some of the stuff wrong– but Raven is no girl either!
August 11th, 2008 at 10:55 ami wish the cheetah girls would run away…
August 11th, 2008 at 12:28 pmToo cute! Reminds me of last spring when we had some tornadoes in the area. The weather guy was reporting a tornado touchdown and my 4-yr-old spun towards the tv with her arms raised in a v-for-victory stance. I then had to explain that the weather guy wasn’t talking about football.
Those are the moments that I remember when I really want to kill them for something!
August 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pmThat’s just too cute! I’m so done with the attitudes my kids are getting from the Disney non-cartoon shows. I’m about to block the channel completely. Duh! (As said by my 4 year old yesterday.)
August 11th, 2008 at 2:40 pmMy younger brother once got in a heated argument with my mom in the toy aisle (I’m sure it was one of many). He wanted a “Ba-Narrow”, and when she asked him if he was referring to a bow and arrow, he lost it.
He has yet to live that day down.
August 11th, 2008 at 4:14 pmAren’t children priceless. I don’t have any of my own but have a lot to do with 2 little girls that I totally adore, they are 6 and 10 and they come up with some priceless comments. The elder of the 2 the other day told me that they would look after us when we got old as we didn’t have any children to look after us. We are both in our 50’s.
The main cable chanels watched here are History, Discovery, Discovery Science, occasional Health and the occasional film, there is of course free TV chanels of which we have 5 and they occasionally have something worth watching.
Take Care and enjoy the priceless words of those little ones.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:08 amLots of Love Carolynn xxx
im waiting for the children bike riding alone results!
August 13th, 2008 at 2:18 amIt’s great that you caught on and finally gave the right answer. You are learning.
August 13th, 2008 at 8:47 amLOL….such a funny connection
August 14th, 2008 at 3:27 pmheheheh - cutie!!
August 15th, 2008 at 5:28 am