Barney Mickey Word World: Robin's First Lessons

 

If only i can talk to the people behind Barney, Mickey Mouse, and Word World personally, I should thank and congratulate him for the good influence he contributed to Robin.

At age one, Barney was Rob's first favorite TV show. Rob's first love to rhythm and melodies are from Barney's nursery rhymes. It was Barney who taught him that the sun and the stars are heavenly bodies that shines and twinkle in the sky with the song, "Oh Mr. Sun Sun, Mr. Golden Sun, Please shine down on me" and "twinkle, twinkle, lil star". That a butterfly is a mini  insect that flies because of the song, "Butterfly, butterfly, fly fly away", and many others.  Barney's lessons are more than songs but also good manners like saying "thank you" after asking a favor, saying "please" if asking a favor, and "welcome" when responding to a "thank you". The attitude of putting wastes in a bin is Barney's influence too!  These are little things but count a lot of attitude on Robin's part. The effect of "Barney-ism", if i may call it for Rob's sake, made me easy in teaching Robin simple "must" lessons for his beginnings.

Several learning like the basic things that go --- train and its sounds, bicycle and how its wheels spin around,  jeep and the blow of its horn, a bit of science --- astronomy, biology, space, and others that a child should know are Barney's.

There were several Barney lessons also that I've personally learned a lot. A lot haven't learnt when I was little. These are something "new" things that I found it to be insightful, funny, and enjoyable.

Another Rob's great influencer (is there such this word?) is Mickey Mouse. His counting numbers, first dance, the "Hotdog Dance", naming animal characters like daisy, goofy, donald, and minny. These are Mickey's famous friends except one who is alien to me --Pete. It was Robin who introduced me to Pete. Through Mickey, now Robin can count numbers up to "thirly". That's how he says for "thirty".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Word World". This is a TV program that introduced Robin how to read 3 - 5 letter words like cat, dog,  sheep, stairs, etc. Here, Rob learned phonetics, spelling, and identifying animals.

 

Watching educational TV shows and related programs are beneficial to learning children, however, should be controlled by adults at home.

 

And...the best thing is : " Learning things with kids is worth great re-learning for adults"..It pays to be a child sometimes.