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RE: Our Favorite Children's Books. Protect Your Children. Turn off the Screens.
Oh I loved The Berenstain Bears as a child, I had forgotten about those books! Thanks for sharing I will check those out.
I have had the same experience. At the age of one my kids could usually sit through a longer book too, and reading to them young really does instill a love for literature!
Nature shows are usually a good choice. Sometimes we will let them watch "survival shows" such as Bear Gril too. They also like Heidi and Swiss Family Robinson... and some of the old Disney movies from the 50's.
By the way, I love and concur with your first paragraph about kids’ movies. Not too many people are willing to be that blunt about them! There are a handful that we’ve got that I’ve deemed okay, but it’s pretty limited. Frankly I’m a little scarred from myself being a protected kid who never knew what everyone else was talking about—it was fine and dandy when we were homeschooled, but it was BRUTAL once enrolled in public middle school—so I’m trying to strike a balance between “nothing goes” and “everything goes” though the scale is definitely tipped much closer to the nothing end.
It’s part of the reason I’m leaning toward homeschool for my own kiddos, but I have to get the husband on board :)
Bear Grylls would be pretty awesome. I’ve thought about looking around for The Crocodile Hunter. Then, the past two days have been spent by sick husband and kids (Pixie woke up with a fever this morning, darn! I’m the last man standing here!) watching the Sportsman Channel. It cracks me up because you’d think minutes on end of the camera panning the landscape or watching a deer munch grass behind a bush would be so boring to kids, but nope. They love it.