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This holiday season Dora will save the Snow Princess. Everyone in my house knows this definitively. But a couple weeks ago when I announced that A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving was coming on, my kids were more like, huh?
They sat through it; turned out they really liked Peppermint Patty and assorted crew. At one point my 5-year-old was laughing out loud hysterically. When I came running in from the kitchen to see what was so hilarious, I discovered Snoopy wrestling a folding chair. Hilarious, indeed. The next day my son, retelling the episode, referred to Snoopy as "the dog." The dog?!
How could my kid not know Snoopy? He knows every character under the sun. But clearly Donald Duck, Charlie Brown and any other 40+-year-old illustrated American icon is in the shade. I suppose it
really is the time for change. (A girl gets so busy mothering, you forget
to give the lesson on the classics.) Well, like it or not, this year
we're watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Grinch that Stole Christmas too. And we're gonna like it. Hmph.
Do classic television characters mean anything to your kids?
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Comments (15)
No, but they will. We're going for classics over the current stuff. We're collecting the old Disney movies and watch the old Christmas classics. I think cartoons today are way too sassy, my kid is going to pick up on enough of that from real life, I don't need to encourage it with cartoons!
I hear you!
Before my daughter was born, I bought the Peanuts Holiday box set, that came with the Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas episodes. She watches them constantly. My daughter KNOWS who Snoopy is. My brothers and I were HUGE Snoopy fans as kids, I'm not about to let that fade away.
Oh my kids love the classic cartoons. they do love their "new" cartoons but me hubby like to watch Boomarang(sp)
Last year I showed my, then, 3-year-old DD "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and to my dismay she was utterly and completely bored. I have not given up. I will show it to her again next year.
I always loved the Peanuts cartoons. Every year my brother and I plotted out the showings of Rudolph, Frosty, Peanuts and the Grinch. My daughter knows who they are.Then again she is 20 now, so I hope she knows who they are! Oh and I was never a fan of the Snoopy vs the lawn chair scene, I always went to the bathroom then. Peppermint Patty is who cracked me up. Totally clueless human being.
I agree! I miss classic cartoons. When I was making a theme for my son before he was born I choose Snoopy. After he grew out of his baby bed set I wanted to get him a big kid Snoopy bed set. Yea right! I couldn't find one anywhere. Grrr I try to keep the classics alive in my house. It's hard though because all the fun stuff kids want they only sell newer characters.
Yeah my husband and I have been collecting all of the classic cartoons, from bugs bunny and Lulu to Charlie Brown and the classic Christmas movies. I have two kids in my house a 2yr old and a 6 month old and they both love the classics. Even Tom and Jerry. I like to stick with the classics, I believe they are more tamed down to the way children are, rather than some new cartoons that have a lot of adult humor in them.
My kids love Charlie Brown, but those are my fav's so they have watched since birth. As far as others go, they know the Grinch, Rudolph, Tom and Jerry , but more than anything as with any generation their favorite is SCOOBY DOO...
My now 16-year old was raised on Merrie Melodies, Tom & Jerry, Looney Tunes, and of course, Charlie Brown. Barney was the In Thing when he was little, but we remained a Barney-free zone. Good manners and being nice are lovely lessons, but I thought it was more important to learn how to drop an anvil on a coyote.