There are good reasons to let your kid watch TV. One of them is the 30 minutes of peace and quiet you get for yourself. But one of them is so your kid can keep up with the other kids at school. No one wants to have the kid who gets ridiculed for saying "Who's Elmo?"
Last week at day care pick-up Tai's good friend Natasha informed me that she was Judy Garland, Moe was the Tin Man, and Tai was the Lion. Upon hearing this, I turned to the teacher standing next to me and said, "I guess Natasha has seen that movie. Tai hasn't." She gave me a look that said no shit and recounted this story for me:
Natasha: I'm Judy Garland, who do you want to be?
Tai: The Gingerbread Man?
Natasha: No.
Tai: The Big Bad Wolf?
Natasha: No
Probably exasperated by this point, Natasha then assigned Tai to the role of the Lion. (What is she trying to imply about his personality?.....Oh wait, he is afraid of butterflies. Good casting, Natasha.)
Although he may have never seen the movie, he played along and payed close attention to who everyone was supposed to be. Later that night I recounted the story for Minh and when I mentioned that Natasha played the role of "Dorothy" Tai gave me a look that said, you have absolutely no clue and proceeded to correct me. "No, Mama! She was Judy Garland!"
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Get used to that "you have no clue" look.
Natasha has seen about *10 minutes* of The Wizard of Oz. You know, just enough to want to talk about it constantly, and to get nightmares about wicked witches and scary scarecrows.
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