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Learn more about Amazon Prime. Get to Know Us. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands. Amazon Business Service for business customers. Amazon Second Chance Pass it on, trade it in, give it a second life. The Zenith began slowly dying. Its picture narrowed into a greenly tinted slit. It stared like a diseased eye into the living room where Mama and Daddy sat. They turned off the lights so they could see better. I became a newspaper reporter. With my first Christmas bonus, I bought myself a television, a nineteen-inch GE. With my second Christmas bonus I bought Mama and Daddy one.
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They hooked it up to cable. Now he mostly watches the Discovery Channel. I bear them no grudges. They were very young when I knew them best. In grad school I switched back to Guiding Light. I had known Ed Bauer longer than I had known all but a few of my friends.
It pleased me to see him in Springfield every afternoon, trying to do good. I watched The Andy Griffith Show twice a day. I could glance at Opie and tell you what year the episode was filmed. I watched the Gulf War from a stool in a bar. My wife was a student in a seminary. She did not want to meet Ed Bauer, nor could I explain, without sounding pathetic, why Ed Bauer was important to me.
The first winter we were married I watched the winter Olympics huddled beneath a blanket in the frigid basement of the house we had rented.
This was in a closed-down steel town near Pittsburgh, during the time I contemplated jumping from a bridge into the Ohio River. My wife asked the seminary community to pray for me. Davis, who played Alice on The Brady Bunch was a member of that community. One day I saw her in the cafeteria at school. She looked much the same as when she played Alice, except that her hair was white, and she wore small, gold glasses. I sat in the cafeteria and stared at her as much as I could without anyone noticing.
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I wanted to tell her that I grew up in a split-level ranch-style house outside a small town that could have been named Springfield, but that something had gone wrong inside it. I wanted to tell her that years ago Alice had been important to me, that my sister and I had looked to Alice for something we could not name, and had at least seen a picture of what love looked like.
I wanted to tell her that no one in my family ever raised their voice while the television was on, that late at night even a bad television show could keep me from hearing the silence inside my own heart. I wanted to tell her that Ed Bauer and I were still alive, that both of us had always wanted to do what was right. Davis stood, walked over to the trash can, and emptied her tray.
She walked out of the cafeteria and into a small, gray town near Pittsburgh. I wanted her to be Alice. I wanted her to smile as if she loved me.
I grew up in a split-level ranch-style house outside a town that could have been anywhere. I grew up in front of a television. I would have believed her. Remember when your parents warned that sitting too close to the TV would hurt your eyes? Is Minecraft giving our kids myopia? Would Rio ever learn that Jem was really Jerrica Benton in disguise? He ultimately chose to work with Marvel Productions, a Hollywood offshoot of the comic book publisher, after a fruitful meeting with Hank Saroyan, their vice president of network development.
Production commenced with Jeffrey Scott as head writer and Saroyan and Bob Richardson as showrunners. The series would include footage from classic black-and-white films, as well as then-recent blockbusters including Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. In one instance, Saroyan and Henson made a 3: Similarly popular s animated series, like Transformers , The Smurfs , and DuckTales have been widely available for years.
Why not the Babies? Head writer Jeffrey Scott disagreed with that notion. Showrunner Saroyan has no idea, either. The Walt Disney Company has made no official statement on the status of the Muppet Babies home video prospects, and did not comment for this post. One suggested that a slew of legal documents were lost when the Muppets were sold to Disney. Another speculated that the live-action film elements were discarded so that the studio could avoid paying for archival storage.
Now that Disney has released two Muppets film and a television series, and the Muppet Babies are set to return to television early next year on a CGI-animated series on Disney Junior, perhaps the original Babies will soon reappear as well. Muppet Babies was a critical and commercial success, racking up more than a dozen Emmy nominations and finishing at or near the top of the Saturday morning Nielsen ratings for most of its network run. Muppet Babies was one of the most consistently funny, entertaining cartoons of its era. On the other hand, parents must contend with kids eager to consume limitless hours of screen time.
To see how parents are balancing this, we surveyed Slate readers to see how they are managing screens in their households with kids between the ages of 4 and We received a total of usable responses to our survey. Our sample was mainly female, In addition to all the other parenting work they do, apparently moms are the ones who are also willing to spend time on parenting surveys. They also were mainly white It seems that the violent video game debate is waning as only Our sample were definitely not gamers, by and large. This lack of concern corresponds to recent surveys of scholars and clinicians who also seem skeptical of video game violence effects.
And with good reason, as evidence never materialized to link games with violence. Even the Sandy Hook shooter turned out to mainly play the nonviolent game Dance, Dance Revolution. By contrast, parents do worry a lot about kids getting addicted to screens. Just about 90 percent of parents worried about this at least somewhat, which may be due to the recent spate of scary headlines on the topic. Although the American Psychiatric Association has been considering including a diagnostic category for internet gaming addiction, the topic remains controversial among scholars in the field. Women in our sample held slightly more negative attitudes toward screens than men, although the difference was quite small.
By contrast, and one of the findings we find most interesting and consistent with the surveys of scholars and clinicians mentioned above , is that parents who hold more hostile attitudes toward youth also tend to hold more negative attitudes toward screens. Curiously, dislike of kids and dislike of screens are highly predictive of each other. Kids today with their music and their hair and their iPhones!
Punishing kids for misbehavior by taking screens away is a common practice, with Then again, some parents eschew limits altogether; With all these concerns about screens, parents are leading by example, right? Parents were wedded to their smartphones, spending an average of 3. Parents report using screens of all kinds for an average of 6.
That compares to 2. In fairness to parents, this is probably because kids in the sample were between the ages of 4 and 13, and screen time correlates highly with age. Youth over the age of 13 typically consume screens about as much as adults do, according to other studies. Some of the comments made by parent respondents suggest parents often gradually give up enforcing screen limits over time. How kids and adults use screens, though, can be important.
For instance, using social media to compare oneself negatively with others is associated with depression, even if social media use overall is not. The good news here is that fully 95 parents of parents report using screens alongside their children. We thank the parents who participated in this survey. Full graphic results can be found here. The low production values only make Gumby seem like something your dad would make for you in his basement workshop, if you were lucky enough to have that kind of dad. The episode is nearly wordless, and Clokey manages to evoke an impressive range of emotion from the clay slabs that are his characters.
Then he extends the ladder of his fire truck all the way up into outer space, rescuing the wayward youth and completing the ambient impression of benevolent dadness that pervades the whole Gumby universe. Miraculously, every single second of this works perfectly, with nary a whiff of preachy moralism or ironic winking toward parents. The TV in the nursery breaks down, and our beloved Muppets in baby form at first freak out. Soon, though, they have a bright idea: They can entertain themselves by performing their own shows from inside of a cardboard box! Cue the cute Star Trek and Tonight Show parodies, which play even better now to my adult pop culture proficiency.
It even inspired this writer, then just a kid, to dream up her own TV shows using a cardboard box. But in this case, the show actually enhanced and encouraged my playtime away from the screen. Belding, and a rapping theatrical production of Snow White. Clarissa Explains It All: Clarissa is a young auteur who designs her own graphics and fantasy sequences to tell stories about the world.
The episode, a landmark in how vegetarians were represented on TV , opens with a perfect illustration of what us big kids call cognitive dissonance. After the Simpsons find themselves cooing over an adorable lamb at a petting zoo, they return home to scarf down a dinner of lamb chops. In the fallout, everyone learns that they must respect one another, regardless of how they eat.
What Homer says of the waterlogged roast pig is also true of this episode, more than 20 years later: Like many programs for small children, this episode of a briefly popular Nickelodeon series is 24 minutes long, the exact amount of time it takes to play Words With Friends sitting on the toilet, then take a shower. In addition to hearing from writers, academics, and parents on all aspects of the genre, we wanted to hear from the real experts.
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For that, we convened a panel of six 4- and 5-year-olds to talk about their TV habits today—what, where, and how they watch—and also what they think of what kids used to watch. They had some opinions. Watch Nina, Carter, Chloe, Adam, Benjamin, and Clara fill you in on how things really are in the delightful video above. In , Julie Aigner-Clark was a stay-at-home mom in Colorado frustrated by a lack of sufficiently educational entertainment for her month-old daughter.
In , however, the jig was up: Disney was forced to admit that the videos had no educational value and offered full refunds to parents who had bought them. What a dramatic rise and fall! It was like something out of Baby Shakespeare. The big idea, before it mostly fell apart, was to expose children as young as 6 months to high culture and foreign languages, though many parents, desperate for a shower, seemed to start the curriculum even earlier.
For millions of parents, that theory made intuitive sense—or at least, they were eager for it to make sense, since the videos were also dynamite babysitters. In retrospect, this was a golden era of screen time for the very young. Producers were offering increasingly sophisticated products targeted specifically at very young children. Teletubbies , a show intended for children as young as 1, premiered in the United States in Other productions made explicit claims that they would make babies smarter.
It was the Wild West of babies staring at screens. The Baby Einstein glow began to dissipate by the mid-aughts as studies doubting their efficacy started to roll in. For every hour a day that babies watched Baby Einstein videos, they knew 6—8 fewer words than their peers. The earlier a child started watching Baby Einstein videos, in fact, the smaller his vocabulary. The writing was on the wall, and even a baby could read it.
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An advocacy group complained to the Federal Trade Commission in , prompting Baby Einstein to drop the word educational from their advertising. Your baby could not, in fact, read. Disney sold Baby Einstein in for a presumably much less astronomical cost, and the brand still exists as a purveyor of toys, walkers, bouncers, baby mats, and other analog baby products.
Aigner-Clark and her husband sued the researchers who published the most explosive debunking of their claims, saying they wanted to acquire the raw data in at attempt to clear her legacy. The idea that a vaguely highbrow video can make a child smarter now sounds like a kind of old-timey tech utopianism, like the idea that social media would democratize the flow of information and unite people around the globe. The question now is not whether screen time might make your babies brilliant but whether it actively harms them. The AAP has tweaked its recommendations several times, with the latest guidelines allowing that FaceTime is OK for babies less than 18 months old and that toddlers can benefit from educational media if parents are next to them while they watch.
But once a week, sandwiched between the feel-good family values, was a half-hour anomaly: Nick News With Linda Ellerbee. Nick News , which ran from —, was styled like a nightly news program but made for elementary and middle schoolers. It was serious, and it took kids seriously. It appears to be the first place future British royal Meghan Markle appeared on camera , at age 11, lambasting sexism in advertising.
It covered debates over terrorism, children living with terminal illness, and the toll of physical abuse within families.
The show was, at least to me, the Platonic ideal of a news program for kids. Could they possibly respect their young audience the way Ellerbee respected hers? Snapchat, and basically every publication on Discover, needs to stop condescending to young audiences and do better. According to marketing data, a remarkable 59 percent of to year-olds in the United States use the app every month. Unfortunately, as Snapchat sees it, the world is mostly gossip, celebrities in various states of undress, and kittens. Some outlets, like the New York Times and the Washington Post , seem to worry over this questionable quality; the national papers have been notably tinkering with their Snapchat presence in search of a balance between visual stimulation, interactivity, and substance.
Newsela uses software and human moderators to take the news of the day, tailor it for different grade levels, and distribute it to schools. Terrorism, gun violence, hate crimes—they all rise to the top. Outside of school, kids with a nose for news often end up consuming content made with adults in mind. For precocious teens and preteens interested in current events but unlikely to sit down with a newspaper, Saturday Night Live often serves as a glimpse at our current political moment. For those older or nerdier kids with an appetite for the details SNL glosses over, satisfaction comes from the late-night politics explainer, a blossoming cable subgenre.
Contentious topics, historical analogs, and primary source documents ripple across the screen.