Race You to Bed by Bob Shea
Rating: 3 stars
Lorelei and Ben would be more generous with their stars...they like this book a bit more than I do. I think it's the image that I have a problem with: Race you to bed! Ready, set, go! Faster, faster! I mean, I've tried for over three years to create a pretty successful, mostly calm (splashing not included) bedtime routine that actually does not involve a race.
But this book is catchy with its nonsensical rhyme "Sneeze to bed! / Grilled cheese to bed! / Angry, angry bees to bed!" It is so random in a way that makes me wonder but makes my kids giggle. On the "Clang to bed... / bang to bed... / bring a BRING-BRANG-BRUNG to bed!" the bunny plays the nosiest instruments known to mankind...on the way to...bed? I always ask, "Would Mommy let you take these things to bed?" Both kids: "Nooooo!" I'm a party pooper like that.
But I do like the ending. The bunny gets to bed: "Looks like I beat you! / Beat you to bed!" and then with a startled look: "Oh, you're already in bed? / You were way up ahead? ? Okay then, race you to sleep!"
I like that kind of race. Can I get in on that?
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Monday, November 8, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Oh, Daddy! by Bob Shea
Oh, Daddy! by Bob Shea
Rating: 5 funny stars
Among the library books we brought home last week, this is definitely in Lorelei and Ben's top three. Maybe the best of the bag!
It's a simple little story of a father hippo trying to get his son to do something. Using the classic trick of doing the desired thing wrong, the son laughs and shows his father how to do it correctly...and therefore does what his father actually wants him to do.
For example, Dad Hippo comes in, "dressed" with a bucket on one foot, a boot on another, oven mitts on his hands, underwear on his head, and a flower pot on his head. "Is this how you get dressed?" he asks his son. "Oh, Daddy!" his son says, and shows him how to do it the right way. The little hippo shows his dad how to get in the car, eat his lunch, water the flowers, and give a hug the right way.
If you don't employ this tactic with your kid--and how could you not?! It's the oldest trick in the book!--you should start now. This book would probably help an obstinate kid for at least a few weeks... The only drawback, and it's not a very big one, is that the little hippo says, "Easy peasy, mac and cheesy!" after showing his dad how to correctly get in the car. Your child will, without a doubt, pick that up. It doesn't bother me too much, though Lorelei has only repeated it six or seven times a day, not 50 or 100 times.
Rating: 5 funny stars
Among the library books we brought home last week, this is definitely in Lorelei and Ben's top three. Maybe the best of the bag!
It's a simple little story of a father hippo trying to get his son to do something. Using the classic trick of doing the desired thing wrong, the son laughs and shows his father how to do it correctly...and therefore does what his father actually wants him to do.
For example, Dad Hippo comes in, "dressed" with a bucket on one foot, a boot on another, oven mitts on his hands, underwear on his head, and a flower pot on his head. "Is this how you get dressed?" he asks his son. "Oh, Daddy!" his son says, and shows him how to do it the right way. The little hippo shows his dad how to get in the car, eat his lunch, water the flowers, and give a hug the right way.
If you don't employ this tactic with your kid--and how could you not?! It's the oldest trick in the book!--you should start now. This book would probably help an obstinate kid for at least a few weeks... The only drawback, and it's not a very big one, is that the little hippo says, "Easy peasy, mac and cheesy!" after showing his dad how to correctly get in the car. Your child will, without a doubt, pick that up. It doesn't bother me too much, though Lorelei has only repeated it six or seven times a day, not 50 or 100 times.
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