Thursday, September 1, 2011

Parenting for from Dummies


So Inara is sitting here watching Dora the Explorer -- of course, because that stuff is catnip for preschoolers -- and in this particular episode Dora travels to China.

While there, she learns that the Chinese kids apparently have their own version of Swiper the Fox who regularly torments them -- he's a weasel named Ying-Ying.

This is the most subversive thing I've ever seen on this show.

"So, the Chinese have created a cheap knock-off of Dora's intellectual property," I said to my daughter when I saw it.

She just stared at me -- then went back to singing the "We did it!" song.

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