Saturday, June 28, 2008

Kiddie recreation

With K and C lying under foot this summer, it is starting to be difficult to get any work done. Apart from their general clatter and clamour, I am also faced with the pressures of other super moms with no freelancing work who hie their spawn off to entertainment spots on the island - Wild, Wild Wet; West Coast Park and the go-carts, the Singapore Science Centre. It's true, there have been piano lessons and basketball, we did a jaunt to the National Museum for the Mozart Exhibit and the Singapore History Show, and managed two playdates, but apart from swimming and scootering, it's been pretty quiet. This is mostly to do with C's minor but still troublesome surgical procedure, which has kept us home. Still, I can't say that I have had that many complaints, perhaps because they are voracious readers. Another testimony to their resourcefulness is they are planning a garage sale for "Kids and Yayas" on Sunday at the function room...

But just as hard as it is to find good reading material for aged 8-11 in this day and age, it is perhaps even tougher to find great viewing material. In this over-aware, hyper-stimulated and still politically correct decade, the flicks of my own childhood do not easily translate. The situation is further complicated by the fact that both K and C have imaginations that work on overdrive - [they're nightly prayer is that they have 'no bad dreams'] - and are highly attuned to even the slightest possibility of being frightened. As such, we moved with success but not without struggle, mind you, through the Jurassic Park series, cushioned with comments like, "Spielberg doesn't allow children to die in his movies." We also went through a few James Bond movies which T and I both found to have slightly too much disturbing erotic imagery for our highly impressionables.

Last night, we went through our DVD collection and after dismissing too many films as being too "bastos for kids, we settled on either Men in Black or Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles - talk about bastos. Unfortunately, K balked at the scary alien faces in MIB, and despite some misgivings, we went in for Blazing Saddles, but not before explaining that some of the language they were going to hear was definitely not for school or their friends.

The verdict? Fart jokes transcend the decades. We are now looking for Silent Movie and Young Frankenstein.

6 comments:

Ms. Spinach said...

ha! i offer as further proof: my father, who is 64, has longed claimed that the campfire scene in blazing saddles is one of the funniest in movie history.

Hoochy said...

How did C's recovery from the procedure go? Is he okay? Still traumatised?

Noelle Q. de Jesus said...

He's A-ok! Thanks Sash!

Anonymous said...

Hmm, that's a hard one. Movies for kids that are not scary, not inappropriate for the young... how about Fly away home. It stars Ana Paquin and a flock of geese. Loved this.

the arts and crafts experiment said...

Weekend at Bernies! :-D it's hilarious! i don't know if your intelligent children will appreciate this humour though.

sandalilamang said...

I'm glad that C's A-ok :-)

Been swamped with work. I'd like to read more about Teresa's life. I will, soon.

Meanwhile, we eagerly await the birth of my sister's son's son :-)

My love to all of you.

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