Laudanum for the modern child.

[reddragdiva]

If opium was good enough for the Victorians, then telly is good enough for us, and that applies to Flash as well. It's GODDAMN CRACK for babies. We've been pacifying Freda with all sorts of fabulously suitable material:

• Weebl is the all-time winner. Blimp, Mango, Giraffe, Cucumbers, Marrow and of course Kenya. "Kenya" and "Cucumbers" are particular favourites of hers. You can now buy cuddly lions and tigers!

• Bad Ass Babies, courtesy ladystardust_xs. Her four-year-old loved it, Freda was mostly puzzled.

• The musical video delights of YouTube. Almost anything with music and moving images will pacify the little dears! Particular winners for Freda are the ukulele delights of Gugug.

Assume that your darling offspring is really pushing it. What works for you?

Comments

[lucybond.livejournal.com]

My fetus stops kicking VERY suddenly if I sing loud rock songs :)

Not sure if that is appreciation or horror...

[marylemore.livejournal.com]

Weebl has always been my boppy music + bright colors chill out website, can't even imagine how stimulating those animations are to a wee baby! Are you getting Freda a little tiger or lion? :3

[reddragdiva]

Freda KICKED IN TIME.

[reddragdiva]

Neither yet ;-)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Has she seen the music video with the men in pink dancing around on treadmills?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Oh that's the name - Ok Go.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Ooh ooh and Blode, by Joel Veitch.

[reddragdiva]

That is so so so Flash for people on drugs.

[jauncourt.livejournal.com]

I usually threaten them with cannibalism. It's not very successful. The older one stares at me fearfully and the younger one laughs, then bites me.

[octopusgrrl.livejournal.com]

P made this basic animation of our family's faces on coloured backgrounds, which Dali is absolutely fascinated by :) He also likes these Welsh language games.

[lucybond.livejournal.com]

Then maybe she IS horrified, & wants Beethoven.

I had the option of a free Bridgewater Hall ticket for some Beethoven this weekend, but I'm not sure I can sit still without peeing for that long :(

So, I'm taking the 'go to work drinks' option, because there I can go pee (& flake out & go home to bed) as early as I like.

[gths.livejournal.com]

I feel compelled to mention that, in fact, tigers do not exist in Kenya, as they are from Asia.

Just wanted to clear this up before Freda fails a test on it or something.

[shesmymonkey.livejournal.com]

Jesus and Mary Chain, Erasure, Echo and the Bunnymen. But not Muse, sadly.

As for watchies, she liked Hot Fuzz and she watches Eastenders without much complaint.

And when she's at her worst, Sebastian sings silly songs to her and that fixes it unless she's decided she's in too much pain for anything to work...

[reddragdiva]

Singing silly songs is in the Daddy job description.

[shesmymonkey.livejournal.com]

too right! Just wish I could somehow record him being all spontaneous so that when he's not here I can play it for her - then again, I have two albums full of his old band singing ...

[reddragdiva]

heh. I think it's the eye contact and physical presence that do the trick :-)

[shesmymonkey.livejournal.com]

true... but i'm going to test her with 'i stole a monkey from the zoo' when he's at work to see what effect it has. watch my space (not myspack) and we'll see!

i wanna video him looking directly into the camera doing it but i dont think he'll let me

Egad

[maxcelcat]

You're WARPING that child.

Nice work. Keep it up.