Shmeducational.

Remember Schoolhouse Rock? Let’s be honest. It was awesome. Back in the day, education programming actually taught something.

And when you were tired of singing along to conjunction and adverb related jams recorded by actual studio artists, you went outside to play and imagined things, because you still had an imagination.

Now we have…..DORA?

Do you now what my children learned from Dora?  They learned to speak gibberish. Now my daughter walks around and boldly declares, “SCHMIGLESFOODLE!! THAT’s orange in SPAAAaaaAAANIiiiIIIISH!!”

That’s what happens when you toss around educational sounding things out of context, and then repeat yourself, “LOUDER!!! RAAaaaAAAPiiiIIIIDOoO!”

I’ve watched a few Dora Episodes, and I’ve made an observation. Each storyline culminates in Dora or Boots feigning that they are incapable of solving a basic problem. At that point, they call upon the viewer for help with the obvious, whether that be finding something that is lying in plain view, or shouting incoherently at an inanimate object.

Lesson: Don’t solve your own problems, no matter how simple. Shout at someone else to do it.

Sigh.

Today Adeia asked what electricity was. So I turned on School House Rock.  And she now understands it (roughly), and turns off the lights when she leaves the room. Take that Dora.

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