What Bob The Builder Can Do To Your Child
Can we fix it? Yes we can! I drove to work this morning with the Bob the Builder theme song in my head. That’s how you know you are officially a parent, when cartoon theme songs take control of the invisible radio in your head. Out of all of the cartoons though, I have to admit that I actually enjoy Bob the Builder. He’s cute and humorous, and his sidekicks are pretty entertaining as well. It amazes me how he can build something so quickly and always manage to solve some other issue as well. Whether Spud the Scarecrow manages to break something or Dizzy lets the sheep out of their pen, he fixes it all, doesn’t he? Yep, there aren’t too many things that the amazing Bob the Builder can’t fix. I wonder if he can fix my broken screen door…
My preschooler wants to know why Bob and Wendy aren’t married. I don’t have an answer for that, but maybe they should be. They certainly have plenty in common. They certainly could build their dream house in no time at all. Bob the Builder’s show isn’t just entertaining for children, but it has also proven to be educational. There isn’t always an obvious lesson that pops out at you, but the characters are always being courteous to one another, admitting their mistakes and accepting of one another. No matter who makes a mistake or needs help, the characters are always willing to help. The creator of the cartoon was a clever individual.
We have Comcast cable in my household and subscribe to the In Demand feature. I wouldn’t say that we are subscribers for own our purposes but mainly for the fact that there are unlimited kids’ cartoons and shows on at any time. Bob the Builder is one of the most popular requests in our household. I never have a problem allowing my daughter to watch that show on a daily basis. I won’t say that I’m fond of watching it as often as she wants to because eventually I can recite the entire episode completely on my own. She sits there on the couch and giggles, says hello to the characters and sometimes will pretend that Bob the Builder is joining us for dinner. Once, I had the lovely grocery store adventure when she pretended that he was shopping with us. Not only did I have to lift her in and out of the grocery cart, but she insisted that he needed help too. I suppose he didn’t have any tools that would allow him to hoist himself up into the cart since I had to put his invisible self next to her. I’m sure my fellow shoppers got a kick out of watching that scene. Of course, I pushed my embarrassment aside and simply smiled. Bob the Builder has stolen her heart and in essence, scored quite a few points with me as well.
on September 28th, 2006 at 3:52 am
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