Posts Tagged ‘octonauts’
Fatherhood²: The Ultimate Octonauts Quiz
As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader of my blog, The Octonauts are extremely popular in our household. With the US launch of the show happening this week on the Disney Channel, I thought now was a good time to celebrate our favourite kids TV show with a bit of a fun quiz.
So without further ado, here are 40 questions – some easy, some a little more difficult, some only for the die-hard Octo-fans amongst us…
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Fatherhood²: My 10 favourite pre-school story books
As a father, one of the most regular ‘slots’ where I get to spend quality time with my son (especially during the week) is at bedtime – subsequently, I’ve probably read about 90% of the bedtime stories in his short life so far. Therefore, I’d consider myself reasonably well qualified to recommend a few good bedtime stories to other parents.
Robert has a bowing-shelf full of books, but there are definitely a few which both he and I will go to most often. Obviously I can only rate the books we have, so this list is by no means exhaustive (please let me know of *your* favourites in the comments!) but hopefully it might give new parents a few good suggestions to start their collections with…
Fatherhood²: I love The Octonauts, but…
Following on from my slightly contentious post about ‘Rastamouse’, I thought I should provide some balance by writing a little about one of the best things Cbeebies currently has to offer, namely Octonauts…
However, in order to stop myself from turning in to a jibbering blob of unbridled enthusiasm, I wanted to focus on the one disappointment I have with Octonauts – and other shows like it in the past. Namely, the speed at which the makers cotton-on to their popularity before ramping-up the marketing and merchandise machine.
[Yes! Finally I've managed to figure out a way to blog about both Fatherhood AND marketing at the same time!]