My love-hate relationship with Dora the Explorer

If any of you have a 3 year old you will understand...Dora the Explorer, my friend, and nemesis(look at definition 2...that is exactly what I mean).


I bought this pair of Dora slippers for Christmas. My girl wears them anywhere I will allow her to get away with wearing them; to the store, the library, and on this day...her dance class!

PeePs loves Dora. So to be the person I am...I'm going to tell you first why I LOVE Dora.

1. Dora the Explorer runs for 30 minutes. My daughter then, is riveted to the T.V. screen for the full 1/2 hour. It's great, because it's free and I don't have to pay a babysitter!

2. Dora the Explorer teaches my daughter Spanish, and where I live, it is becoming a necessity to be bilingual...and thanks to Dora and Boots the Monkey, she is well on her way.

3. It is easy to bribe my daughter into doing things because good ol' Dora gifts get her to do practically anything...Thanks the HEAVENS above...because my daughter can be EXTREMELY stubborn!

I know what you are thinking...'Her? Stubborn?'...looks are deceiving people...the girl won't budge if she puts her mind to something...unless I promise her a Dora gift, but I use that in only the most EXTREME cases...like when I want her to play StarFall on the computer why I blog.

Okay, I hate to do this, but these are the reasons why I HATE Dora...

1. Dora the Explorer is ONLY 30 minutes long. Just when I sit her down to watch Dora and then get across the room, log into blogger, start my new post...my daughter is screaming at me, "Dora is over Mommy...I want to watch Dora". Then I have to get back up, which is hard when you are lazy like me and don't like to move much, and go and turn on Dora again. (I have it recorded on DVR)

2. My daughter and I now have a language barrier. She will say, "Mom I want to wear pantalones!"--and I'm like, "huh?". Or she will point up and say, "Arriba!" Where then I have to say, "PeePs, what are you pointing at?" Because I think she is trying to say whatever she is pointing at...when she is actually saying UP in Spanish! This can go on and on...

3. I have to bribe my daughter to do things sometimes! And I hate buying anything with characters on them, especially clothes, but I LOVE to shop for clothes for PeePs, and she LOVES clothes. So my dilemma is I have had to buy a few things, like the slippers, that have DORA on them...and I shudder everytime!

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Shelle