I was completely anti-teletubbies.... then one day my son saw it and fell in love with them. I didn't like it, but he wouldn't stop talking about them, so I figured "Why not? What harm could it possibly do"? Well he's been watching the show for about 2 weeks now. He is only 2 1/2, and his vocabulary is outstanding. Lately, I've noticed that he is starting to babble. For example, when he doesn't want to do something I tell him, he says something like "No ca cow"! (he used to just say no, don't like it) I always believed that the rumors that the teletubbies promoted homosexuality, and that was confirmed for me today. My son wanted to play teletubbies games on sprout.com, and I found one called "dirty knees"... the whole game was to clean the teletubbies dirty knees. As of today, I will no longer let my son watch this show, no matter how badly he cries. I really believe that it's affecting his vocabulary and I also believe it promotes and encourages homosexuality. What are your thoughts?
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your kid should not be learning vocabulary from teletubbies. teletubbies is for 12 months and under. stop watching that with him and start watching some sesame street.
if you think the teletubbies are gay, and you're OFFENDED by that... then, well, best for you to go play in some traffic and let a real parent raise your child.
I agree with the anti-gibberish stance (Though I suspect your son is simply calling you a cow). But the second half, where you equate homosexuality with hygiene is bewildering.
Oh well, whatever keeps you from procreating again.
Okay, I think Teletubbies are disturbing and all that jazz, but I think your reasoning is off. He's a kid, leave him be.
My thought?
You're an idiot.
The Teletubbies are the work of the devil, this is true... but what they have to do with teh ghei, I don't know.
My son used to watch 'Boo-Bah', which has got to be the stupidest kids show ever spawned (and according to my oldest child, is the single gayest thing he has ever seen), and he is fine. Thankfully (because it was driving the rest of us flipping nuts), his interest in the show went away after a couple of weeks and he moved on to something else, but he did that on his own.
See that? That's called allowing a child to develop his own interests instead of shoving a bible up his ass every five minutes.
Individuality: fundies fear it.
My kids don't watch teletubbies because they quickly realized it's mind-numbing crap!
"Look! that guy has dirty knees! Faggit! Faggit! Get him! Light the torches for Jebus!"
"What? Lady, I'm a gardener!"
To those who don't understand why she is equating dirty knees with homosexuality(though "dirty knees" is a term that can be used for both male and females):
I thought the axed teletubbies after the guy that played poe suffocated in his own suit.
Knee washing, is certainly the gayest argument a person can come up with thats for sure.
1st thought; When I was a wee fart I had a "Little Golden Book" titled "Little Black Sambo" . In the book whenever Sambo means to say "No" he says "Nopey Opey Um-Totum". I'm 65 now, and I still like to use that one.
2nd thought; What about the people who wanted to wash Jebus' feet? Damn buncha homos, and hypocrites, too. Hmmmphh!
I actually agree that the sort of gibberish and babble that these shows spout at children is probably really bad for their speech. I'm young enough to have once watched these things; though my language development was decent enough (because I was actually spoken to by humans) I think less bright kids, or those that had been raised just on television, probably suffered from it.
Although it's not just television shows that are full of gibberish either. A lot of slightly dimwitted parents seem to think it's cute when kids parrot their babble, leaving the overtaxed education system to correct their malformed speech. Not to mention dummies, devices used to shut kids up that can deform the mouth with prolonged use. Ugh.
Dirty knees = blow job, pretty obvious, isn't it?
BTW, the purpose of Teletubbies is nothing else than to start turning your kids into couch potatoes as early as possible. If they are "gay", only in the way that "gay" means lame, stupid, and idiotic.
As much as I attempt to set my television on fire whenever the Teletubbies show up, You're just ridiculous. He's two, right? Shouldn't he be watching something else by now? Like that show with the disturbing red puppet that you should know about by now?
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