Blue’s Clues Blues

The Blue’s Clues Blues

There are many television shows. Of those television shows, there are many dedicated to the education and entertainment of children. Whether you want to believe this is bad, or good, is entirely up to you. As for me and my house, we will watch the Blues. Clues. Blue’s Clues.

Yes. The boy has discovered the clues of Blue. It’s weird. I mean strange. Normally, I can’t get this kid to sit still without a book and a little brute force. But push the power button on the tube of boob, and he has a 48.7% chance of becoming temporarily comatose. You can’t even say the words around him. If you do, he heads for the television, points and the blank screen and says the only words that really mean anything in his life. “Uh Oh.”

It gets worse, we were at the local library, meandering through movies, when the boy spied with his little eye, a video of our colored canine. He grabbed it, and wouldn’t let go. I had to take it from him to check it out, and he didn’t let it out of his sight. He held it all the way home, and when we got home he carried it into the TV room and promptly tells dad to put in the movie. It’s scary, but cute.

He loves Blue, and though we try to curb his TV time, it’s better than Barney.

Post-post:

I had a thought, it would be appropriate to review this video quickly. Blues Clues is an excellent program. It’s well known for it’s educational prowess. It’s not nearly as annoying as many other children’s programs. I would actually give it 5stars in the kid’s category. It is entertaining to adults, at least the first time. And doesn’t wear on one’s nerves. Generally, they have an excellent message that parents can support. As a quick note, while being released on television, this program was the first to air the same episode every day for the full week, rather than having a different episode each day. This has been shown to be highly effective in teaching children and having it stick. Or so I heard, or read, once, somewhere.

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