MTV generation

Never mind school; my children learn everything they know from television.

Dash impressed the zoo employee at the cheetahs' area last week no end by knowing not only why the cheetah needed such a big nose (to breathe in lots of oxygen to run fast) and such big teeth (to eat meat) but also what sort of meat it ate (antelope). This is directly related to the fact that the episode of his favourite show - Wild Kratts -  that he'd watched the previous day was the one about the cheetahs.

One of the other parents from Mabel's school told me that she had brought her violin in to play something for the children when she was co-opping last week. When she took out the bow, she asked the children if anyone knew what it was. Mabel piped up:
"I know! It's a violin thingy!"
The mother was impressed.
"That'll be because we took the music and art class last year, and the teacher had a little violin that the children could try out," I told her, proud of my little Rimsky-Corsikoff.
On the way home, I asked Mabel how she had remembered the violin. Was it from music and art?
"No, it was from Little Einsteins."

Of course it was.