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Post by The Mighty Ducks on Jul 10, 2019 8:32:01 GMT -5
i saw a pictuur from my chldhood where at my grandpapas place us kids were wering homemad cosutumes. i was a yello care bear and its scaryfucking sthit to look at
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Post by xx - Former Bulldozers on Jul 10, 2019 8:37:29 GMT -5
Funshine Bear was my favourite. The yellow bear with a sun on his stomach. Screw teletubbies and the Wiggles, I’m making sure my kids watch Care Bears.
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Post by The Mighty Ducks on Jul 10, 2019 8:59:11 GMT -5
eever watc h bubbah?!
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Post by xx - Former Bulldozers on Jul 10, 2019 9:21:01 GMT -5
Never heard of it
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Post by The Rocketmen on Jul 10, 2019 10:53:21 GMT -5
Oh man, I really wanted to forget that Boohbah existed... same makers as the Teletubbies, but they are creepy alien pod creature things that dance and twirl and have strange eyes, and they gradually get faster or slower in their videos. I think it's designed to be high and watch it to be honest. Doesn't really seem to be anything at all for kids. Here's a GIF I found of the show:  |
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Post by xx - Former Bulldozers on Jul 10, 2019 10:56:00 GMT -5
Yeah imma avoid it...
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Post by The Sandmen on Jul 10, 2019 12:38:11 GMT -5
I remember I could spend hours playing on those toy car town carpets. In grade 10 I gave all my cars (around 150) and the carpet to my school so they could give it to a child who could use it. Kind of wish I kept it for my kids but I'll buy them a new one if they want it. Looked something like this but mine was the older version that I can't find anywhere. According to my teacher, it was rare and she was looking for that carpet for her kids for months but couldn't find it anywhere. View AttachmentCar mats were awesome! The old ones were better than the new ones. We got one for our newphew for Christmas and it just wasn't the same. But I'm pretty sure he still loves the thing. I think only people without souls dislike car mats. |
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Post by The Texas Rattlesnakes on Jul 10, 2019 12:40:37 GMT -5
Oh man, I really wanted to forget that Boohbah existed... same makers as the Teletubbies, but they are creepy alien pod creature things that dance and twirl and have strange eyes, and they gradually get faster or slower in their videos. I think it's designed to be high and watch it to be honest. Doesn't really seem to be anything at all for kids. Here's a GIF I found of the show: OH MY GOD I USED TO WATCH THAT! |
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Post by The Sandmen on Jul 10, 2019 12:48:17 GMT -5
For a time, my kid liked Waybuloo. I liked Waybuloo, but doubt anyone else's kids here will get a chance to check it out. I don't think it was a classic or anything, but it was cool and way more relaxing than most kids shows. Had yoga and crystals and shit in it, and these adorably peaceful fuckers who just did basically nothing all the time. But they were cute and peaceful doing it, so as a parent, you appreciate the living shit out of stuff like that.
(they look way more digital than I remember, which makes me think I am getting their appearances mixed up with the characters from In The Night Garden (another reasonably cool show).
I don't remmeber why I was sharing this. I think it had to do with the importance role we old fucks have on showing our kids the cool shit from our childhoods, because stuff like Care Bears, if the remake still exists, is not as cool as the classic cartoon version we would have watched. Sharing your old loves with your child can be both fun and discouraging. If they hate the thing you lived, you think they are assholes (like the kids when you were young who told you the thing you loved sucked - you take it personally and just want to fight the kid, then realize they are 6 and you are 30, so it might not be wise to duke it out with them - especially if you lose). But it's really neat when they like your show, and I have recently discovered it might actually be even cooler when your own child starts randomly quoting a movie you made yourself with your best friend a couple years before the kid was even born. Unique feeling right there.
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Post by xx - Former Bulldozers on Jul 10, 2019 13:13:35 GMT -5
I remember I could spend hours playing on those toy car town carpets. In grade 10 I gave all my cars (around 150) and the carpet to my school so they could give it to a child who could use it. Kind of wish I kept it for my kids but I'll buy them a new one if they want it. Looked something like this but mine was the older version that I can't find anywhere. According to my teacher, it was rare and she was looking for that carpet for her kids for months but couldn't find it anywhere. Car mats were awesome! The old ones were better than the new ones. We got one for our newphew for Christmas and it just wasn't the same. But I'm pretty sure he still loves the thing. I think only people without souls dislike car mats. Old ones were definitely better, probably why they are so rare now. Gonna make sure my kids fall in love with toys rather than phones and ipads. |
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Post by The Sandmen on Jul 10, 2019 13:18:48 GMT -5
Gonna make sure my kids fall in love with toys rather than phones and ipads. It's easy until they go to school and all their friends are addicted to devices, and they want to hang out with their friends after school, and the place to do that is on their phones and tablets. |
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Post by xx - Former Bulldozers on Jul 10, 2019 13:22:37 GMT -5
Gonna make sure my kids fall in love with toys rather than phones and ipads. It's easy until they go to school and all their friends are addicted to devices, and they want to hang out with their friends after school, and the place to do that is on their phones and tablets. I'll make it a rule. I don't care if they go to their friend's house or if their friend comes to my house. Technology is off limits and if you use it you lose privileges. I'm not gonna have kids who are addicted to phones before they can even do their times tables. |
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Post by The Rocketmen on Jul 10, 2019 13:22:49 GMT -5
I've been collecting shows I enjoyed as a kid to basically re-experience it with my kid as he gets older. First up is Mr. Dressup when he's older. Then we move into stuff like Hey Arnold, Recess, Weekenders, and then when older Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark, which I legitimately can't wait to re-see.
But there are a lot of cartoons I remember as a kid that I don't think I can even find anymore. Things like The Raccoons and The Ewoks come to mind.
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Post by The Rocketmen on Jul 10, 2019 13:28:03 GMT -5
It's easy until they go to school and all their friends are addicted to devices, and they want to hang out with their friends after school, and the place to do that is on their phones and tablets. I'll make it a rule. I don't care if they go to their friend's house or if their friend comes to my house. Technology is off limits and if you use it you lose privileges. I'm not gonna have kids who are addicted to phones before they can even do their times tables. In one sense, I get this. In another, new studies are actually suggesting that phones and video games are not reducing people's ability to socialize, it's just that socializing is now different. Back in the 50s, there were no phones, and telephone calls were brutal. So people socialized by hanging out at hang out spots like diners, drive-ins and shit, rotting their brains. In the 80s, no cell phones, people drove around and hung out at pool halls and basements watching tv and rotting their brains. 90s, kids got together and played games and rotted their brains. 00s, kids get together and hang out on their phones and watch videos and rot their brains. You gotta think, the things we find nostalgic are absurd to our parents, and vice-versa. So the things you remember from your childhood, you can share with your kids, but your kids are going to find interests based in the world they live in as well. And then when they are 30, they can look back and think about their cell phones as being "the good old days." Socialization is not a matter of skill in conversing with someone in a public space and being physical with the earth or whatever the fuck old people are yelling about. It's just a matter of being able to socialize and have a good time with people in whatever way people are doing it. We're socializing right now on an obscure website forum, and none of us find it weird. Also, back when there were no phones, there were still a ton of people who were socially awkward. They were called nerds and geeks for reading books or comic books lol or hanging out playing dungeons and dragons and rotting their brains with nonsense. Or listening to music, the devil's music, and rotting their brains. |
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Post by xx - Former Bulldozers on Jul 10, 2019 13:29:50 GMT -5
Disney's Recess! I remember being in grade 2 when I started watching that and when I hit grade 4 it felt that I was the same age as them.
My best memory of that show is when the school wanted to tear down the jungle gym so all the kids and parents were sitting on it singing songs.
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Have 9 points in celebration of this monumental achievement!