Category: Let's talk
Hi Everyone. I know you all have at least one guilty pleasure, something you like to do that you wouldn't admit easily. Don't be shy. Mine is: I watch one soap opera. only one, though, "all my children" I don't catch it every day, but I'm hooked on it. So, I told you mine, your turn!
Mine is listening to songs for children sometimes or tales and things like that. I wouldn't say that i feel guilty about it but i don't usually say that i do that. But i think it is good to remember the things we used to listen when we were children sometimes.
i'm a britney spears fan...
I some times go and play with colour and shapes and make up games with them only when I am bored and haven't got anything else to do.
Because of some websites and music sharity blogs I've discovered, I like to collect old children's records. Most of these tie into TV shows or cartoons, but the occasional generic record of silly songs can be fun as well.
o, that's one of my guilty pleasures all right, listening to childrens, music. I actually bought a couple of CDs of Amazon three months back that I remembered from my own childhood, lollol. The Wonderful World of Nursery Rhymes, an absolutely gorgeously classical collection by Vera Lynne and Kenneth Mckellar of all the people who could've made a CD like that, and Wally Whyton's Childrens, Choice, not exactly as I remember Wally Whyton's music, but ever so, ever so similar to the albums I had on cassette as a very small child, with a few addedc extras. I'm sure I still have around five or six years more nursery fun to go, what with all the childrens, TV Robbie'll be watching and the Cassettes or CDs he'll be listening to on his cassette/CD player. I also enjoy making models of things with this magnetic marbles, rods, connecters and various different shapes, no glue required, no mess, just simple fun.
Jen.
O, and I forgot baby toys, lollol. I'll still fiddle around or play with those if I had half a chance. My 2-month-old cousin Robbie's got this musical inchworm toy I myself gave him when he was born, but Lou's only just got it back from her partners. It has all these scrunchy, velvety, crinkly rattly, jingly musical sections, so I thought that would be fun to tie across Robbie's pushchair so when he opened his eyes, he'd have something tactile, noisy and also colourful to focus on, and he's really getting the hang of all that now as he's also holding his own head up for short periods. My best friend, Kay (Narcissa Malfoy on The Zone) also gave him this musical pulldown teddy. The star with a small music box inside it straps on to Robbie's crib, pushchair, carseat or maybe even a bouncy chair if he could spend a lot of time in a bouncy chair without developing cramps in his legs. I was playing with that for most of the evening everyone was round my Grandparents for Cornish pasties.
Jen.
Jen.
If I could still see, I'm sure I'd still play with one of my old Barbie dolls. LOL. I kept my favorite Barbie along with all her wonderful outfits long past childhood, and not as a collector's item.
But since I don't do that, I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to hopelessly romantic books with happy endings.
My guilty pleasure is:
Watching cartoons and playing on kids' websites.
Mine would be that I have some toys, some of which might be considered for younger kids:
-- foods, dishes, and appliances - A small few are from when I was a kid, and I know I wouldn't find those specific ones at the stores now, but most are from when I was a little older, like after 15 years old. I don't actually sit down and play with them though myself, (OK, I don't do it that often) *smile*, but I just like the shapes and that some of them make a sound or do something.
-- Puzzles (not the jigsaw type, the simple ones) where each piece has it's corresponding place. I am also planning to someday get some scratch-and-sniff books, and those children's books with the tactile pictures and/or make some of my own.
-- Some little stuffed animals that make the sounds of what they are, like a cat that meows, a dog that barks, etc.
-- A baby toy )a plain flattish one with the letters and a thing that you slide to choose between either playing letter/word games, spelling words, and playing music.
-- Two other toys where one is a globe with an airplane that you fly around and turn the globe with a joystick, and the other is a flattened globe that you press the places with your finger; both talk about certain countries and you can play games on them and hear a clip of music that represents that country.
-- Two plastic trays that might be used like if you were playing restoraunt; they are designed like that, not like a regular tray where it is a smooth surface on the inside, so that's how I figure it's a toy.
I mainly have these things because I figure some of them can be useful for my future job. For instance, the toy foods, dishes, and appliances can be used for object communication, or a calendar thing where you put each activity that will happen in a box or Velcroed on a bulletin board. The baby toy can be used to help teach letters, while the globe can help teach geography (not much, but some). The puzzles can help teach matching and/or categorizing or something. The books I'm sure can teach, something. *smile* And the animals can teach the names of animals and of course be associated with their sound since some of those animals couldn't be brought into a classroom. and finally, the trays can be used for whatever activities might require a small area to work in. When I find a toy like any of the ones I mentioned, that I like, I always tell the person whose with me that I want it for my job as a special ed teacher, but the truth is, I also like playing with them or at least looking at them myself as well. *smile* So I'm really buying them for both those reasons, to teach, and because they look fun/interesting to me.
Oh, here's another one. I like sound effects records and CDs, especially those associated with Halloween and horror in general. I dunno, it's interesting to see where different CDs get their effects from and how well or poorly they're put together and so forth. But for me and my fiancee every day is a good day for a spooky story anyhow, why wait for October? Hahahahahaha! And if you want to top that, last year I bought a bunch of DVDs with most of the old animated Christmas specials I remember so we can play them at Christmastime. Forget the TV who either edits them or fills them with commercials!
Well, I don't think I should really be posting this here, since it's not technically a guilty pleasure as anyone who knows me well knows this, but since there's been so much discussion of listening to children's music and such, I absolutely love Disney. I used to have Disney's greatest at one point, but they got stolen ages ago, and I own most of the classic Disney movies--Cinderella, Lion King, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, et cetera. And I watch them fairly regularly.
And I, like Becky, love reading those horribly cheesy romance novels with cliche happy endings.
chocolate is my pleasure
Nice one! Chocolate is one of my biggest guilty pleasures, mainly because its helped me put on oo, around 59 pounds in weight, oopsy, which is why I'm joining the gym at RNC when we all have to come back from half-term tomorrow, worst luck. Also the baby toy Princess Leilani's talking about I think, is called an alphabet desk. Someone got one for my cousin Kezzie when she was around two years old. I'd still play with one if I had half a chance, lollol, and those talking telephones with the keyboard and the speed dialling facility, lollol.
i suppose mine is watching isney movies with audio description or reading books from my childhood, some of which I've just picked up and read again.
Oh, yes, eating chocolate would have to be mine as well. lol I'm also a huge fan of little kids' toys. Every chance I get, I'll go in to the toy section of a store that has one, and play with just about anything that isn't in a box. lol
Oh yeah. i do that too. you don't have much choice when you want to look at toys, since the little kids ones are usually the only ones that aren't in a box. *smile*
Almost all of the above for me. I still at times like a lot of the older Sesame Stree matterial, as well as Greg & Steve.
My dad and I when I was younger up until I was about maybe 15, used to go through the toy section at whatever department store we wound up going to and do anything from bouncing the little rubber balls they had in the metal racks to setting off whatever made noise.
I only do that if my mom isn't with me. lol My friends understand that side of me, thank goodness.
Well, I don't feel guilty for any of this, though may well regret posting.
I love a good romance novel. I love some disney music, love some childrens music, and some childrens books.
Exceeding the speed limit on the trike.
Singing rebellious songs while solemnly promising my Irish family, that I'd behave in the pub.
And if you believe a word of that,you'll believe the Scots can play rugby.
Put me down for the romance novel, the chick flick, and donuts. Also add to the list, foot massages, no I am not the foot smeller. As if anyone couldn't guess I like to argue and I like to deal in the problems of others. I still like to play games in my imagination and I do talk to myself and I answer myself too, but not out loud. grins.
Nem
Being out on the lake in a boat when a storm begins to brew offshore and refusing to come ashore. The winds whipping mercilessly with waves beginning to roughen up on the waters that beforehand were quiet gentle. The boat begins to rock as rain pelts savageously. That's when excitement heightens, when guilt begins for I desire further to go out into the depths, only to be with those poor souls so afraid of storms.
Lightning streaks as day grows cold when sun hides behind the rain soaked clouds rolling in and still the desire to go way into the deepest waters.
~*Thunderous MidNight*~
Playing with toys, eating chocolate.