Search This Blog


There's one I want on the top shelf...
Showing posts with label Kiss the Girl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kiss the Girl. Show all posts

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Over And Over Again


Kids are creatures of habit. Repetition is heroin for them and they always need a fix. How do you think the Teletubbies pull off “Again! Again!“ without a rebellion? You have to be very careful interacting with underage folk because something you do once you’ll have to do a million times. And there is no rhyme or reason to what that thing will be. A bazillion clips on youtube showing babies losing it over some completely random sound prove that. I smooched Keilana once during the chorus of “Kiss the Girl” from “Mer-naid” and, forever after, had to kiss her each time the song played--even if I was driving. When Connor was tiny, the sound of tearing paper would send him into hysterics--so we did it every chance we got. I must have opened a can of Pringles a few times to keep Addie quiet during Walmart trips, because the one time I passed by the food aisle, there was broken-hearted wailing. And now Scarlett. Maurice Sendak’s trip through the calendar Chicken Soup With Rice, about a little guy who never tires of the comfort-food staple, is when it happened. According to the book, August is so hot that the little boy will turn into a cooking pot and simmer his own soup. When Scarlett reached out to touch the page, I pulled her hand back and hollered, “Ouch!” She was laughing so hard it took us about ten minutes to go to the next page. Toddler humor, go figure.


http://www.amazon.com/Chicken-Soup-Rice-Book-Months/dp/006443253X


http://childrensbooks.about.com/cs/authorsillustrato/a/sendakartistry.htm