Torn
"Ok Regan, listen to me very carefully." I hear Sabrina whisper in the other room. Of course, I immediately engage my bionic mom-hearing, the better to uncover my daughter's latest nefarious plot. I suspect a ploy involving cookies, but am willing to be wrong on this.
And I am. For once, Diva Girl is not plotting to use her little sister as a decoy, sending her in to beguile me out of cookies, or pizza, or extra Webkinz time with her preschooler wiles. No. This time the target is, in fact, her willing accomplice.
"This is very important Regan. We don't like Dora." A-ha! She's after the Zen Baby's tv time. Hoping to indulge in something a little more risque than the antics of Swiper the Fox, I imagine.
The brainwashing continues, "Dora is dumb. It's a baby show. And we're not babies, right?"
She's pulled out the big guns, and Regan rushes to agree. "Yeah! We're not babies!" she sneers, "Dora is dumb. We don't want to watch that."
I stand on the other side of the wall, torn by indecision. Do I step in and put a stop to this, defending Regan's right to age appropriate educational programming, or do I allow Sabrina's scheme to succeed? Yes, she's being manipulative, exploiting her sister for her own ends, but if those ends are freedom from the tyranny of Dora, who am I to complain?
Comments
Save your sanity. No Dora!
Hilarious! One of my pals who has kids (I do not -- so I must live vicariously thru them) makes her way thru Dora by acting like Dori is in the bedroom talking to her lover. Put those ears on next time....I bet you'll get a good laugh!
Girls are just the ultimate. They scare me but I love their conniving ways. That is a hard call, getting rid of Dora is ever so tempting.
kill off dora! yey!
but hang on what is the alternative?
