Day 91/365: Easter

[nanila]

We had dippy eggs with soldiers for lunch.

Keiki: "Dipping my bread in dee egg. Dee egg brains. Zombie egg. Zombieeee!"

I would say "No more late night Resident Evil viewings for you, young man" except a) he's never seen a zombie film, b) none of our children's books feature zombies and he can't yet read and c) he's three years old. Where did he learn about zombies?!

Comments

[recessional]

Nursery?

[perennialanna]

Seconded. All the Reception children (ie 4-5 year olds) were playing zombies in the playground last Halloween, even the ones I knew for a fact would never have seen anything beyond CBeebies at home. They pick it up from those whose viewing is less monitored.

[recessional]

Zombies are also, at this point, in some pretty G-rated stuff - Plants vs Zombies games, there's a new one called Zombie Castaway, they show up on cereal boxes and in cereal ads . . . etc.

[miss_s_b]

This

[nanila]

That's the most likely place, yep. Preschool has children from three to almost five years old.

[st_aurafina]

By osmosis? Zombie osmosis?

[nanila]

Zombieeee ossssmooosssssissss

[silveradept]

Other smallings is my guess. Lots of things come through that way, even for the most dedicated parent trying to screen them out.

[azurelunatic]

One good game of zombie tag would be enough. "Rarrrr, I'm a zombie and I will eat your braaaains!" followed by all the running around and shrieking and giggling.

[nanila]

...I want to play zombie tag now.

[siliconshaman]

Morphic resonance field perhaps? IDK, but there was an interesting study done about the spread of nursery rhymes and children's games that showed that a new variant of a rhyme could spread nationwide, and skip across to different continents, in space of a few days to couple of weeks...

With not a blessed clue as to how unfortunately. Leaving everyone just a bit mystified. [and leading to questions as to veracity, despite multiple successes at replicating the work.]

It's one of those sort of things..

[nanila]

Heh. In that case, I wonder if Keiki's "poo in the night" song has spread to the other preschool children.

[kotturinn]

Also here to say nursery. The sticking power of peer-led information starts early..........

[nanila]

It does. It's cute when he tries to repeat things that Humuhumu or his cousins have said to him, as he doesn't always remember them fully.

[alatefeline]

Well. That is certainly something!

[nanila]

At least it kept him sitting down nicely and eating his egg?

[cmcmck]

With my allergy, I won't be able to get teh brainzzzz that way then! :o)

[nanila]

No eggy braaaainssss for youuuu

[nou]

Tobes was a huge fan of Paw Patrol before he'd ever seen a single episode.

[nanila]

Good point. Humuhumu loved My Little Ponies for months before she knew that a television show existed!

The Horror! The Horror!

[wordweaverlynn]

They whisper to him in his dreams.

Re: The Horror! The Horror!

[nanila]

The Whispering Eggs. Yep, terrifying.