Cynthia Kinnunenblogs about sharing stuff from your childhood with your kids
We were all snuggled up in front of the TV last Sunday morning for an hour and what should come on but The Littlest Hobo. Without cable, this and Coronation Street is about as edgy as Sunday morning television gets around our place.
But the kids were enchanted by this wandering dog that would latch on to people for a time and well, save their lives multiple times during the half hour. In this episode, a family was taking off on a six-month sailing adventure and had to leave their old dog behind. Hobo, of course, was watching and then stowed away (knowing they needed a dog on board for numerous rescues). He ended up saving the day after a wild, shipwrecked adventure and the kids couldn’t stop talking about him for the rest of the day. Read more...
Cynthia Kinnunen blogs about sharing stuff from your childhood with your kids
Ah, the Muppets. They’re good people. I mean, puppets. This motley crew of characters (and I’m now referring to Jim Henson and his gang) somehow mastered the art of children’s entertainment but with another layer of almost vaudevillian adult humour that didn’t find itself rooted (too much) in lame pop culture references and crude commentary. Except maybe Statler and Waldorf.
Nope, this stuff was smart. And funny. And silly. Boy, did I think they were cool, especially with all of those brilliant guest stars like Harvey Korman, Vincent Price or Alice Cooper. Not sure I’d have even known the words to “The Banana Boat Song” without those Muppets in my life. Read more...
Cynthia Kinnunen blogs about sharing stuff from your childhood with your kids
Moominworld
I’m not certain how many of you will have heard of The Moomins, but they are characters in a wonderful set of books originally written in the 1940s and ‘50s. They were written by a Swedish Finn named Tove Jansson, and they follow the lives of a strange little group of forest creatures and the (sometimes dark) adventures they embark on.
My mother was born in Finland, and thus there are a great many things in my life influenced by Finnish culture. The Moomins are one of those quirky little phenomena that may not have really caught on in North America, but I find very enjoyable and have, of course, forced upon shared with my own children.
