Comments on: Boohbah: Harmless Kids’ Entertainment or Pure, Unabashed Evil?

By: R.L. Bertilson

R.L. Bertilson — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:18:55 +0000

Augh! No.

By: Lilly

Lilly — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:28:03 +0000

Gina, would you like to be one with the Boobahs?? :-D

By: R.L. Bertilson

R.L. Bertilson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:30:15 +0000

Oh, and the best way to entertain kids is reading aloud. (Also mentioned by Nathan.) I enjoyed the times when my parents read aloud to me the most. And when they played with me. It’s much more enjoyable to be read to, and snuggle with a parent, than to sit lonely watching some mind-numbing program.

Also, drawing on a huge roll of paper is the *best*. Seriously, if you have kids (or even know any kids), get them a giant roll of paper, that they can roll out on the floor, and draw on. It is tons and tons of fun, especially if you have siblings. ^_^

By: R.L. Bertilson

R.L. Bertilson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:26:06 +0000

I agree with Vicki strongly.

On the whole, I think that letting young children (5 or younger, I think) watch any kind of television is rather stupid. Their brains are developing then, and television does not help development (and I should know, since I am a television and movie addict) of intelligence. I did not see any movies until I was perhaps 7 and I’m very glad about that. The movie that I *did* see back then, I did not understand, and I can barely remember it at all.

Like Nathan said, I agree that young kids should not be allowed to watch anything, except maybe Pixar, in moderation. It’s not going to benefit them in any way, besides keeping them out of trouble. (Which, I believe, is one of the main reasons parents let their children watch TV.)

By: Lilly

Lilly — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:18:03 +0000

“Plot: The purpose of Boohbah is to interact the unseen children with chance to be one with the Boohbahs. They will then be able to join the rainbow. Only the chosen unseen children that are able to enter the Boohball shall be seen and welcomed by all Boohbahs. The chosen ones will eventually be able to evolve into Boohbahs themselves if they so choose.”

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By: Lilly

Lilly — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:14:08 +0000

O_O

Creeepy.

By: Petrus

Petrus — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:36:42 +0000

Has anyone ever read “When the Tripods Came” by John Christopher? Aliens took over the world via hypnosis on a tv show. The children that watched the show reacted extremely violently when they missed an episode, and were estatic when watching it. Just a funny coincidence.
That lone child calling Boohbah is haunting my head.

By: Petrus

Petrus — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:23:01 +0000

MR ROGERS!!!

By: Carson Spratt

Carson Spratt — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:17:23 +0000

Miss Blake, I agree entirely. Read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. “It rots the sense in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind he can no longer undersand a fantasy, a fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese! His powers of thinking rust and freeze! He cannot think – He only SEES!”
As the Oompa-Loompas go on to explain, if the kids hit you with sticks for taking the TV away, shove them in a corner and give them a good, solid storybook. I hold that kids should not even be exposed to TV until at least the age of thirteen, by which time they have been trained enough to reject the bad stuff they see. And anyways, the kids should never be allowed to watch anything without the parents having already thoroughly analyzed it.

By: V. K. Blake

V. K. Blake — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:27:21 +0000

Just don’t take off your shoe and hit the podium with it like Khrushchev. ^_^

I did not say it was drug induced. But then again, I didn’t exactly say what I meant either. So let me say it again, but better:
It looks like the sort of things you would see after having taken psychedelic drugs. And the voices of the children didn’t sound right either. They didn’t sound like happy kids, they sounded like ecstatic kids.
That is not just insulting it, it’s offering phenomenal evidence. (I don’t mean phenomenal as “oh wow!” but as “relating to the senses.”)
And maybe that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Maybe there is nothing wrong with psychedelic visions. I dunno. ^_^