Tuesday, April 29, 2008

THIS IS PROOF THAT KIDS REALLY RELATE TO ME (DORA)

A LADY EMAILED THIS TO ME ABOUT HER SON:

My son loves to watch NickJr. He watches Dora the Explorer on a daily basis. Dora counts in Spanish and she usually would have a word of the day, that she says in Spanish the entire episode. When Dora counts, she counts solely in Spanish, NO ENGLISH. Do you think this helps kids to speak a little Spanish?

Well honestly, I didn't think Dora speak Spanish on television would help kids to also learn words. But boy was I ever wrong...

One day my son, who is 3 and was 3 at the time, came to me and said, "Momma let's count in Spanish." Me, not really thinking he could count in Spanish said, "Alright Ja'Quan." I was basically trying to brush him off guys so I could quickly continue my work. But then he said, "Uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, seis," just like that. My baby didn't miss a beat and I was shocked! I didn't know what I was hearing so I told him to say it again. And when he repeated it the second time I was ecstatic. I started thinking back to where he might've picked it up at, then realized there was nowhere he could've learned it from but off "Dora the Explorer!" My son don't go to daycare and other places he visits I'm usually with him. So he had to learn Spanish off the popular NickJr show!

Have you seen your kids pick up anything off of Dora the Explorer or any other NickJr show? If so tell us about it, I really want to make sure I'm not bugging and the show really has taught my son to count to "6" in Spanish. By the way, he can count to ten now. I started teaching him Spanish to 10 since I found out he was highly capable of learning it. Thanks NickJr!

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