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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2019-09-06 04:24 AM


4 September 2019

Why is it
that children’s TV fiction
is so joyous,
inspiring
heart-warming,
clever,
surreptitiously and innocently moral and educational
full of toe-tapping, addictive song and music
and utterly delightful -
and adult’s TV fiction
is violent
and/or vicious
and/or dramatic
and/or tragic
and/or at least sad
and/or colourless
and all the same repetitive recipe
and bland
and so, so, so predictable?

Perhaps that is one of the million reasons for my inexplicable health
though slightly dented in the last while.
I have the TV on all day,
partly for my animals in case I am too engrossed in my work
to be conversing with them enough
and to remind me of the sound of the human voices -
and the children’s TV programs,
in many cases, one after another,
catch my attention
with their adorable-to-the-point-of-loving-giggles animals
and even human children
and put so many happy smiles on my face
and land my furbabies up with extra cuddles
and my work, an extra boost
and my problems, more solutions
and me, a song in my heart.

Perhaps more adults should watch children’s TV!  
Why not try it?
What harm could it do?


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Inspired-8
Member
since 2008-04-14
Posts 311
Pluto
1 posted 2019-09-06 07:14 AM


It may do some people some good I know kid shows help me escape all the violence and negativity on the regular channels I watch cartoons and animal programs with my 6 cats very insightful write .

Inspired-8

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
2 posted 2019-09-06 07:32 AM


Thank you very much, Inspired-8, for your lovely reply.  I SOOOOOO understand about your 6 cats.  I have 3 grown-up (3 and 2/3 year old) "kittens" and a dogalog, and without them and their predecessors including a horse, I would have been in a lunatic asylum in a curly jacket with padded walls and no windows and the key thrown away, decades and decades ago . . . mmmm, taking all that into account, I realise I would have been a skeleton by now!  

Even if they are a bit surprised to hear this, please give every single one of your kittymalitties a cuddle and huggle from their Auntie Di across the huuuuuuuge waterbowl in sunny South Africa, precious angels that they are.  And could you pass this message on to them - they will translate it for you if you want them to, I am sure:  Meeow, meeow-meeow, meeow, purrrrrrrrrrr-meeowwwwwwwww!  If you are a bit taken aback, Lori and several others (not all posting now) can tell you of messages I have sent to their furbabies.  

Inspired-8
Member
since 2008-04-14
Posts 311
Pluto
3 posted 2019-09-06 07:43 AM


Thank you so much Auntie D !!!!! I will pass it on to my fur babies thank you !

cheers
Victor
PS Hello from Washington State USA

Inspired-8

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
4 posted 2019-09-06 07:52 AM


Thank you.     Imagine a world without animals . . . No, DON'T!  (Shivers!)  
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