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A mannies or parents job isn’t to park a kid in front of the TV and have them watch all day, but there are times, when a little TV isn’t a bad thing. I wasn’t allowed to watch Saturday morning cartoons. There were three kids’ shows I was allowed to watch when I was little and as they ran during the week during the day, these must have been from when I was in kindergarten and earlier.
Sesame Street. This was pre-elmo days. For me it was all about Kermit, Grover, Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird. Oh, and the ‘mana mana’ singers. I loved that silly skit.
The other two shows I was allowed to watch were both Canadian (we didn’t have cable and didn’t get American channels – my parents still don’t have cable.) The Friendly Giant and Mr. Dressup.
The Friendly Giant was a fifteen minute show and features the giant in question and Rusty the rooster and Jerome the giraffe who were puppets. It began and ended the same way every time and here’s a link to that beginning and ending. This one is a Halloween special, but you get the gist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV2P6P4p6Hg I didn’t realize the show ran as long as it did – 1958 to 1985. I miss you Friendly Giant!
Mr. Dressup was exactly that. He was a Mr. Rogers type of character and he had a tickle trunk that was full of costumes and every day he’d put a different one on. Funny how my memories of the Friendly Giant are much stronger than those from Mr. Dressup.
I guess the combination of these two allowed my mom 45 minutes to get things done around the house. Sesame Street was more of a now and then show, but the other two were regular features of my pre-school days.
Sean Michael
Smut fixes everything
Blurb:
When Jeff agreed to be the sperm donor to his best friend Beth, he never expected a tragedy to leave his newborn and three-year-old motherless. Beth’s loss has totally thrown his life into chaos: his lover has left him, his house isn’t anywhere near childproof, and his boss feels the restaurant has been patient enough with Jeff’s time off.
Donny has always known he wanted to work with kids, and he just finished his degree in early childhood education. He didn’t count on the prejudice he’d face as not only a male nanny, but a gay one at that. Job-hunting has been frustrating to say the least, so when he knocks on Jeff’s door and is greeted by the sounds of things breaking and a pair of screaming children, he thinks maybe he can begin this particular interview with a trial by fire.
Becoming the nanny to Jeff’s children might be a dream come true for Danny and exactly what Jeff needs, but are either of them ready to really be a family?
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Best-selling author Sean Michael is a maple leaf–loving Canadian who spends hours hiding out in used book stores. With far more ideas than time, Sean keeps several documents open at all times. From romance to fantasy, paranormal and sci-fi, Sean is limited only by the need for sleep—and the periodic Beaver Tail.
Sean fantasizes about one day retiring on a secluded island populated entirely by horseshoe crabs after inventing a brain-to-computer dictation system. Until then, Sean will continue to write the old-fashioned way.
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You know you’re Canadian when you have fond memories of the Friendly Giant and Mr. Dressup!