Madalyn and Dora

It has been some time now that Madalyn has been a big fan of Dora the Explorer DVDs. She really does love those cartoons and I think they are good for her. Not having cable tv I don't have many options for quality programming for Madalyn and myself to watch. She just doesn't get the CREATE channel like I do. I decided to do some research and was amazed that there are over 2 dozen Dora DVDs. Holy Cow! If you are interested in checking out Dora for your kids I recommend saving a bit of money and shopping for Dora at Amazon.com

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Anonymous said…
Dvd's are awesome because there are some times during the day when there's nothing good on anyway.
Some of our favorites are:
Veggietales Movies
Little Bear
Little Bill
Beauty and the Beast
June 1, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Robert said…
WoW. A single mom found your blog and passed it on to me. I am just starting to check it out....so much the same. My Darling Daughter is now 71/2.
DVD's are great for two reasons; simplicity...We don't live our life around a network schedule....and there are NO commercials. I hate commercials ability to influence children.
Dora is great because of the intro to Spanish. Once my daughter was like 3 and a lady at church asked if she knew what color her shirt was...My DD is like 'Azul' The lady keeps asking not quite understanding my daughter. I finally said 'honey she does not speak Spanish please use English'
To my surprise my daughter knew exactly what I meant...she looked at the women all funny and said 'my shirt is blue...Azzuuul is spanish for bluuuue"
I was rolling.
I was wondering if this whole blog thing was worth it but I think I will try to dive in...thanks for the inspiration.
June 22, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Jason said…
Robert, I know what you mean about living around the networks. It is hard with children plus all the shows are the same. We seem to be in a reality phase and a police type show. Neither are very good for me or Madalyn. I love netflix. I may be watching shows from the 70's but they are good clean fun.

If you are interested in blogging give it a try. You may be a hit.

Thanks for commenting.
June 23, 2009 at 3:49 PM
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