Maybe it's the pregnancy exhaustion.
Maybe it's Sam waking up at 6am and wanting to "sleep" in my bed for an hour, that hour mainly consisting of her smacking me in the face repeatedly with her gloworm as she attempted to hand it to me and asking to "turn the music back on!" (We only let it play music during the day, lights only at night).
Maybe it's a lot of things...
but seriously, Calliou has to be the most annoying, whiny, obnoxious child ever to grace the TV universe. The fact that there has yet to be an episode where Mommy drops him off at Grandma's "Just to get a freakin' break from all the whining, before mommy has a break down!" is endlessly fascinating to me. Far be it for me to rag on a kid that probably has alopecia, but geez, he drives me nuts.
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Then again, I acknowledge that I could just be having a stressful day. It doesn't help that Calliou is Sam's favorite show on PBS kids and she wakes up before seven every day, just to make sure she doesn't miss it at 7:30. We have had talks at our house however, and Sam knows that "I do not talk like Caillou. No whining!" So, at least he's telling her how NOT to be.
I'm going to take comfort in the fact that it's probably not just me, however.
The other day at the library some kid was looking at books with Sam and opened up a book with a bald kid in it. She yelled "Mommy, look--it's Caillou!" The mom said "It looks like him doesn't it?" and then turned to me and said under her breath "Holy crap. I hate that whiny Caillou. Drive me crazy!"
There's at least one other person out there who can't stand a fictional preschool character. Anyone else out there who can't stand Caillou, I'm thinking of creating a support group?
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I would totally join you, but now I don't have to worry about overhearing that awful show anymore. I'm at work long before that show starts. Yay for me!
I never realized that Calliou was exceptionally whiny, and therefore the show has never really bugged me. Perhaps my kids are equally whiny so I don't notice the difference? I will say, though that the show needs to work on its consistency - there's an episode where Calliou must take the subway to go to Clementine's house and then in the next segment, Calliou walks over with his dad. Um, did she move in the past five minutes? The house looks the same, but I guess they could have taken it somewhere else.
Alison, Yes I saw that Clemintine thing too, all in the same episode! I remember thinking "Where the heck does this kid live that you can take any mode of transportation to her house?" Next, they'll probably canoe there.
By the way, apparently it's not just me that can't stand Caillou. The day after I wrote this, there was an article about the worst kids TV characters on MSN. Caillou was touted as so annoying and whiny that they should force 15 year olds to watch it daily to prevent teen pregnancy. The quote was something like "We should ask teenagers how they'd like that voice following them around all day every day." Haha!
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