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Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

For the last several months I’ve been creating Saturday morning playlists of cartoons for my kid to recreate the phenomenon for him. It’s a fun little hobby and I’ve learned a little video editing along the way. I even have a spreadsheet where I track everything so we have a good amount of variety and consistently progress so there’s no repeats and it’s always fresh. I even mix in “commercials” in between, in the form of random video memes and short indie animations, as well as appropriate music videos. Wish I could make it available to other parents, but I can be a lot more dialed in with an audience of one.

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itsathursday@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is awesome. I always thought I’d do the same if given the chance. You are a great parent.

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inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Well this is genuinely heart warming. Sounds super cute and definitely something they will look back on fondly when they are older.

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- Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hope so. I was showing Reading Rainbow every week for a good while, but he turned against it. Breaks my heart, but I guess there’s no accounting for taste. At least he loves to read, for which I hope Levar would pardon us.
  
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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Look, man. To recreate the experience each show is gonna need 8 minutes of adds for cereals, junk food, and toys. Then every other show is going to have to be a re-run. Also, no one can be dressed for the day and breakfast is in the living room with a bowl of Cap’n Crunch.

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- Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  He likes oatmeal and fresh fruit. I once showed him a 70s slinky commercial, after he’d just gotten an original quality steel one, and it blew his mind. He’s a Gorrilaz fan, and knows all their MVs. He reads for pleasure, including Calvin & Hobbes. His childhood is a complete contrivance of my own devising, a hothouse flower cultivated purely for the beauty of the thing that could not possibly survive in natural conditions.
  
  So no, I feel no allegiance to the original experience as it was lived. The 90s had its charms, but it was largely a cultural wasteland.
  
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