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Date: 21 April 2008 11:55:07
More worrying than the books is the effect of cbeebies on my son. He doesn't normally watch much TV but he's had a bad case of chickenpox recently (add eczema and scratching and the result is infected bleeding skin). The only things that made him happy were the ‘chocolate stars' Lemly brought him and standing in front of the TV. So I was soft for a few weeks. Now I regret it.
I can just about cope with Toddler announcing that he is “Iggle Piggle” and wants to visit Upsy Daisy. Dressing-up just requires wearing a blue t-shirt and trousers, and carrying a blanket. And he has a friend Daisy. So that works.
But what bothers me is the fact that my cup of tea, which he mustn't touch, is no longer “hot”. According to Toddler it's: “hot-hot”. I want to kill Big Cook.
And the repetition of words has spilt over into other areas. Just when we were starting to get proper sentences it all goes wobbly again. Take our conversation the other day:
Mummy: “Make sure you share your raisins”
Toddler: “Razins not for babies”
Mummy: “No, but Crawler is not really a baby anymore"
Toddler (thinks for a while, hands a few raisins to Crawler who immediately eats them, then observes): “She getting bigger-bigger like a toggler”.
Since when was bigger-bigger a word? Last month Crawler was simply getting bigger. Will she be bigger-bigger-bigger next month?