... Beth LOVES the Teletubbies!
Ok so it is not my choice of television stimulation but I do love the Teletubbies. They are bright, smiley and educational and they keep my daughter quiet for the whole length of an episode!
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Advantages: Educational,fun,keeps my daughter quite for half an hour! Disadvantages: repetitive for adults.
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Teletubbies dance and sing and do mundane things like eat and sleep and of course the play just like children do!
A classic episode has some kind of theme and a moment where one of the Teletubbies tummy lights up and we watch a bit of film about a young child doing something like going to the park or making something or helping a grown up in someway. You always see these twice. Hence the famous teletubby phrase ... ...Each episode ends with the Teletubbies being told its time to go, they wave from behind a hill and then pop down behind it, then when they’ve all said bye bye they jump up and go
“Boo”
The narrator says “nooooo”
And they go through it again but this time they stay down.
My husband said to me the other day
“Aren’t you worried? Our daughter has learnt ... more
As I write this, my 21-month-old daughter is wearing her tinky-winky slippers, holding onto her talking laa-laa doll, watching one of her teletubby videos. Beth LOVES the Teletubbies!
Ok so it is not my choice of television stimulation but I do love the Teletubbies. They are bright, smiley and educational and they keep my daughter quiet for the whole length of an episode!
For those of you who do not have young children and have not had the dubious pleasure of watching an episode here is a rundown of what is involved.
There are 4 Teletubbies; they are big chubby and brightly coloured aliens with big smiley faces, a square telly on their tummies and different shaped Antennae's!
Tinky-Winky
Is the tallest of the Teletubbies, he has a triangular Ariel and is purple in colour. He carries round a big red handbag, which is his favourite thing.
Dipsy
Is slightly smaller than Tinky-winky. He is acid green in colour and his Arial is straight because his favourite thing is a cow print top hat!
Laa-Laa
Is the middle sized tubby, She is bright yellow and her favourite thing is a big orange ball.
Po
Is the baby tubby, she is fire engine red and her favourite thing is a little red and blue scooter.
This band of happy chappies live in a hill. The weather is nearly always sunny in teletubby land, and the sunshine contains the face of a young baby who often giggles and coos along with the action.
Teletubbies dance and sing and do mundane things like eat and sleep and of course the play just like children do!
A classic episode has some kind of theme and a moment where one of the Teletubbies tummy lights up and we watch a bit of film about a young child doing something like going to the park or making something or helping a grown up in someway. You always see these twice. Hence the famous teletubby phrase “Again Again”
That is the bit that bores me to tears, but Beth can be entranced by some of the film clips and happily watch them twice through, whereas with others she gets really bored. It just shows that every child has there own likes and dislikes!
After this there usually is a tale which the narrator always starts “One day in teletubby land...”
Sometimes there are computer-animated bits, there is an animal parade, or Little Bo Peep looking for her sheep, a little tap dancing bear in a carousel or even 3 big ships sailing on a sea.
Each episode ends with the Teletubbies being told its time to go, they wave from behind a hill and then pop down behind it, then when they’ve all said bye bye they jump up and go
“Boo”
The narrator says “nooooo”
And they go through it again but this time they stay down.
My husband said to me the other day
“Aren’t you worried? Our daughter has learnt to speak from the Teletubbies!”
You see Beth says hiya, bye-bye, hat, bag, ball, big hug and nooooo!
I told him not to worry, that these are words Beth would have picked up without the Teletubbies because they are the types of words young children pick up on and learn to say first.
My daughter also counts along when the Teletubbies jump out of their hole (although one is the only number that sounds right) and she has learnt the colour yellow from using the Teletubby website.
My daughter doesn’t speak like a teletubby and she watches a lot of the programme.
One of my pet peeves is that everyone says that the Teletubbies not speaking Standard English is a bad example for the children watching it.
How many babies do you know who speak Standard English with every word? Of course they don’t! They are learning to speak and words are garbled. The Teletubbies speak like a young 2/3-year-old child, Which is why so many children relate to the programme.
The narrator says everything first, or translates what the Teletubbies are saying. So the children are hearing proper English and learning as much from that as from the Teletubbies themselves.
The Teletubbies deal with things that babies have to deal with, like making a mess, falling down and hurting themselves, sharing, making friends and learning to speak.
They are very loving. Several times in a programme the narrator will say
“Teletubbies love each other very much”
And then the Teletubbies will share in a “big hug” where they all cuddle up together.
Loving, caring, sharing and having fun and being happy are all things we want our children to learn or be able to do, all these things are contained in the Teletubbies programmes. There is a ton of Teletubbies merchandising out there and I recommend the videos and the books, as they are well put together, enjoyable and educational.
I also recommend that you check out the BBC’s Teletubbies website. It is a fantastic website for children.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/teletubbies.
There are Nursery rhymes, pictures to print out and colour, Teletubbies screen savers etc and a big section full of child friendly games. My daughter loves the games; they vary in skill level so there will be something for children of all ages.
My daughter loves the “more than one” game, which she can play by just pressing the space bar. Each time she taps the space bar tubby jumps up on the screen and says hello. When four of them have jumped up the space bar then makes them disappear as they wave and say bye-bye!
There is a noo-noo game (oh how did I forget noo-noo? he is the Hoover and he sucks up all the mess the Teletubbies make) and in it you have to use the mouse to help noo-noo suck up lots of tubby toast.
There is Beth’s current favourite which is “tubby custard bubbles” you click on the tubby custard machine and it blows bubbles, which if you click on them with the mouse go “pop” and burst. When all the bubbles burst Noo-noo comes in and cleans it all up!
You can also ride Po’s scooter, read along stories with laa-laa or Tinky-Winky, play “head, shoulders, knees and toes” with Dipsy and Laa-laa and also you can help little Bo peep find her noisy sheep!
There is also a new phenomenon called “Teletubbies everywhere” which doesn’t include the annoying “again again” bits it just has the Teletubbies doing various things and one clip with children in it, more often than not they are speaking a foreign language. Beth especially enjoys these episodes.
So I conclude then that the Teletubbies are good educational fun for pre-school aged children!
Now I am off for a bowl of tubby custard as my reward for writing this op!
...the escalator to find no teletubbies I ran around the shop in a panic as if looking for a lost child. Still no Teletubbies, my information was duff. I went home a broken women. I had to get my son a Teletubby before Christmas. I eventually managed to lay my hands on one, after queuing for what seemed like days outside Mothercareworld in Basingstoke. Then my worst nightmare came true, much to my horror a photographer came along and took pictures of ... ...is the smallest of the Teletubbies and her favourite toy is her Scooter.
Personally I cannot understand what the children find so appealing about the programme. The four characters are very bright in colour, which I think is the initial attraction with the young. They talk but they are not clear at all and what annoys me the most is that they do not say “Hello” properly. I am a little surprised that the makers of this programme did not ...
Stick 04.06.2001
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Advantages: Fun. Bright. Cute. Disadvantages: none really for kids.
...are the Teletubbies?
The Teletubbies are large soft looking aliens!(confused?...bear with me!)
They are all different colours and each has a different shape antenna on their head. They all have a square on their tummys that as part of the programme turns into a TV screen.( I will explain more later!)
*RED = PO*
She comes across as the youngest(has quite a cute voice,but I may be alone in thinking this!).
*YELLOW = LA LA* .
La La comes across ... ...starts, you will see the Teletubbies in Tubby land, which actually looks amazing! Green hills, lots of flowers, and bunny rabbits hoping all over looking cute, and it is always sunny!
Every time the narrator talks, the Tubby's will repeat what he said for example:
"La La likes to dance" says the narrator.
"La La ike co pance" copies La LA.
Approx 2 mins in to the show, a kiddies beach windmill will come up out of the ground, and makes weird nosies ...
jennylou 28.08.2001
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Advantages: Educational, non discriminatory Disadvantages: Only on for 20 minutes a show
...the entire goings on in Teletubbies land, and chuckles and babbles gleefully at their antics. 4 years ago they were the in toy, creating huge queues of parents seeking out these friendly creatures for Christmas and birthday presents,(I wasn't one of the masses seen queuing at the local toyshops) Of course a major advantage in the fact that they are ageless is that they are available second-hand at vastly reduced prices. I really thought that they ... ...up and says "Time for tubby bye bye". The Tubbies individually wave goodbye and jump down a hole in the ground. Further details of the Teletubbies can be found on the BBCs website. They are non discriminatory and unbiased racially, a true delight for youngsters. ...
headgardener 23.03.2001
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Advantages: Kids love them Disadvantages: They may takeover!
...me Pleeeaaaase...
Where had the teletubbies taken her? Would she return?
Sure enough, the second the 'Ragdoll productions' screen appeared she returned to me. What do they do to our children? How do they do what they do? Can they be hired as a childminder and what are there fees?
I decided to calm down and think rationally. The colours are bright, that catches the eye. They have big hips and bums, that reminds them of their mothers (in my case ... ...their excitement each time the teletubbies appear.
How many parents can say that they know the words to the songs and the teletubby language such as eh-oh, tubby tustard? Most of us I would think. Actually doesn't that worry you a little?
I'VE JUST REALISED WHAT IT IS! Why we know so much of their language and why they watch the video clips; Subliminal messages and their getting to ALL OF US!!!!!!!! ...
amber24 30.06.2001
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Advantages: Keeps a child entertained for a few minutes. Disadvantages: Not aimed at parents
...the programme consists of these Teletubbies playing around their land. They could play ball or chasing around, hide and seek. They often find something and explore. Sometimes there are processions of animal. Some times you go inside their home and see noonoo the cleaner or the tubby toast maker. You get to see the life of a telly tubby, which in many ways is just like a child’s life.
This programme is well pitched at young children. I have ... ...this programme. They do soon loose interest so only watch a few minutes. As they get older they watch more of the programme and then play out different parts.
Tellytubbies is a 20 minute programme, just enough to keep a little child’s imagination. This morning I was surprised to find that they put on two Tellytubbies programmes back to back. One programme is quite long enough for the children it is aimed at so I could see no reason for two.
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mjbarkley 11.09.2001
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