I guess I could find time to post today, even though my kid has a high temperature and wants me to lie down with him and watch a few Disney shows. But, well, I certainly don’t have to—and it ain’t like watching “Johnny and the Sprites” will necessarily make me gay.
Right?
Any of you feel like posting something today, have at it. I can’t stand seeing my son sick, so I’ll likely wind up hovering over him all day looking for signs of improvement.
Because despite my “hypermasculinist” image, I’m really nothing more than a overweening Jewish mother.
Just as long as you’re not wearing a man-purse and spritzing on body spray while you watch.
Save that for at the sports bar.
My boy has recently taken to “Little Einsteins”, at least on the mornings when I wasn’t quite ready to get up. Of course “Dora” and “Wonder Pets” are probably still preferred.
“overweening Jewish mother”
Heh, me too, except I’m Irish Catholic. Must be something about going through so much to get him, not to mention him being so thoroughly, ya know, dependent on us and all.
“Thomas the Tank Engine:” because there’s nothing more manly than heavy machinery, even if it is British.
Consider yourself fortunate. My daughter is literally obsessed with Barbie Fairytopia, Mermaidia, Magical Pegasus, Magic of the Rainbow’ etc … It is only going to get worse when she grows into Raven, Zoey, and Hanna Montana. Ugh.
as long as you follow it up with a Handy Manny, you’re just fine.
Jeff,
Just don’t get hooked into the “Doodlebops” marathon and your masculinity will be intact
“and it isn’t like watching “Johnny and the Sprites†will necessarily make me gay.”
Probably not, but what about your kid?….I of course don’t mean to imply that allowing this corporate sponsored swishy role model to lure your son over to the world of skin care products, Miatas and color-coordinated accessories is a bad thing – I am after all very pro business. I’m just saying it’s a big step and something you might want to consider.
Well…not Liberace/Harvey Fierstein gay.
More Rupert Everett gay.
Wonder Pets, though–that’ll have you marching off to Castro Street for Wigstock in stiletto heels, ASAP.
According to my teenage daughter: “Johnny is a sprite”.
And what’s up with Thomas the Tank Engine and their conductors!?! Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Alec Baldwin and Peter Fonda? Is this some kind of community service thing?
And why do I know that all these guys were on this show?? That’s sadder still.
Just reading that makes me want to take a brush to my hair a’ la John Edwards.
Get him the disney Peter Pan DVD. Sure, the hero dresses in green tights, but he’s good with a knife and the babes love him.
(I mean, have you REALLY checked out Tinker Belle’s bod? And Princess Tiger Lily –ROWRRRRR!)
Chicken soup.
It’s the universal cure.
SB: or so I’ve heard99
Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet
Oh, but they’re so spaced out,
JuhJuhJuh Johnny and the Sprites!
Oh, but they’re weird and they’re wonderful:
That Gwen, she’s a sex machine
She’s got enormous hoots, a shaven coot–
You know I read it in a magazine
That’s only because you’re a very useful Bluehen.
“Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Alec Baldwin and Peter Fonda?”
As long as Ringo doesn’t sing and Carlin doesn’t swear, my kids can watch it. As for the others, I can’t see the words “Alec Baldwin” in print anymore without thinking about the “Principles of the Film Actors’ Guild.”
Nah! He isn’t a doctor nor have you married him off to a nice Jewish girl.
Just stay away from Captain Planet. (power of heart grumble, grumble)
Aieee! Just reading that caused me to break out in a hidious rash!
Be glad he still wants to be cuddled. In a few years that won’t be the case anymore.
And be glad that he’s got a parent home to cuddle with him. I’ve encountered parents (former co-workers and parents of kids that my son used to go to daycare with, back before we could afford for me to stay home with the kids) who would dose their kids up with ibuprofen and acetaminophen and ship them off to daycare anyway. Never mind the kid feels miserable, never mind that he’s infecting every other kid and teacher at the school – the parents and their jobs come first. None of these were parents that worked in situations where they’d lose their job for taking care of their kid, either – my boss at my old job, after overhearing that my coworker sent her kid to school sick, offered to let her go to her kid, and she said that she didn’t want to burn up her vacation days.
I could rant on that one for DAYS. But then, that’s the same co-worker who claimed that she knew when it was OK to talk during movies.
I hope your little guy gets to feeling better, and I hope you and the wifey don’t catch whatever he has. Hopefully it’s not contagious – my kids run crazy high fevers whenever they teethe, but I’m thinking your little guy is too old for that.
That’s not a co-worker. That’s a cow orker.
Of course not. I’ve done it with my children on many occasions. By the way, those are some outrageous boots!
Yes, it will. It made Johnny gay, didn’t it?
But if you do turn gay, DeeDee Doodle will turn you around.
So that’s why they call them “cow pokes.”
Dear God, you’re all a buncha swishes. I’m prescribing 80 cc’s each of John Wayne, Gregory Peck, and Clint Eastwood films – and no, Bridges of Madison County does not count: that movie is the Devil. Follow up with a dose of SportsCenter every 3 hours for the next 2 weeks, and your testicles should begin functioning again.
You try watching “She wore a Yellow Ribbon” while the four year old and six year old are in the room.
When my youngest was two (he’s 5 now) he loved Willow. I had to make it disappear. I think it ran away. I was about to run away. Then, he fixated on “Henry V” (Keneth Branagh’s version), followed by a LOTR obsession.
Yes. He’s a tad unusual. I think he just likes all the horses and fighting.
I get that AND Power Rangers. All 17 versions of them. Most are worse than you could possibly imagine.
“You try watching “She wore a Yellow Ribbon†while the four year old and six year old are in the room.”
The best remedy for a sick child is to snuggle on the couch and watch The Searchers. Beautiful photography and great drama…
Hey!
That pink haired chick is hot!!!!!!!
Four words: “Paris Hilton prison diary”.
Johnny and the Sprites? What, you don’t have all 127 Barney DVDs? Of course, they won’t make you gay, they’ll just make you homicidal.
I’m going to remind you of that at the most inopportune moment..
Following closely behind the varous permutations of Barbie in its ability to cause only slightly less pain is being forced to endure multiple viewings of High School Musical – Encore edition, no less.