Don’t worry, I haven’t gone mad and decided to explain the birds and the bees to my 2 and 5 year old – this is a completely different type of sex conversation… As I sat with the boys last night, ready to read our usual 2 bedtime stories, I was chatting with Robert about one…
Tag: language
Fatherhood²: When You Think About It, We’re Making Literacy Much Harder For Kids
As I sat at our dining table this morning, eating my cornflakes and mentally planning the day ahead, I noticed something that REALLY annoyed me. Spread out around me on the table were countless pieces of paper – many filled with scribbles and doodles, some school forms to fill in and a couple of pieces…
Fatherhood²: The trouble with Rastamouse is… not yet clear to me!
If you’ve not had the pleasure of meeting Rastamouse yet, he’s a new crime-fighting mouse (like we need another one of those, eh? Eh?) who has his own series on Cbeebies, starting this week. Here’s the official blurb on what he’s about, from Cbeebies themselves:
Stop-motion series featuring Rastamouse, Scratchy and Zoomer, crime-fighting special agents who solve mysteries and play in a reggae band.
I’ve been mulling it over for a few days now, and my opinion of Rastamouse (or should I say, what little of it I’ve seen so far) has gone through several evolutions… I’m not sure I’ve even formulated my overall opinion yet, but a few things struck me that I thought I’d share – mainly because I’m keen to hear other people’s opinions on it too: