My d-i-l just asked me to start recording Dora the Explorer and Caillou for Vanessa. No problem finding Caillou, but I've almost gone blind looking for Dora.
Anybody have kids that watch and can tell me what network it's on, please? When I looked it up on the internet, it said Nickelodeon TV or NickJrTV, but I can't even find that! It's not marked on the paper TV guide or in my list of channels from the cable company. I know it HAS to be on up here because Vanessa's classmates talk about it all the time.
It's on Nick, NickJr and Nicktoons and Nicktoons2 generally. It all depends on what you have.
For me Nick is listed as NICK, Nick Jr is NKJR and NickToons are generally NTOON or something like that as far as the cable guide listing. Can you do a title search from the cable box?
-- Edited by everbran at 16:06, 2007-12-19
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does your cable provider have a website. You may be able to find out what channel Nick is on your cable that way. Its on here right now, I know that doesnt help you where you are but there should be a website that can tell you the channel number.
Thanks, both. The cable website is a jumbled mess and we don't seem to have NickTV listed anywhere. But Ted is meeting with the producers of a new kids' programming at his work today, so he said he'd get the info from them. He too spent an hour combing the booklets from Rogers Cable last night and came up with nothing.
I really wish my son would buy his own television. They threw theirs out in the garbage a few years ago when they found themselves watching "The Simple Life", and they haven't watched any since. Now it appears that we might have to buy a different, and more expensive package from the cable company to accommodate their requests. Grrrrr. Anyway, I think that now DVR's and Tivo are so widely available, they might have a change of heart. They actually admit that Vanessa might be at a slight disadvantage not knowing who Dora is, or having never watched a second of Sesame Street. Yet again, another example of "what do I know", lol. I let my kids watch a fair bit of TV before dinner for YEARS and they aren't exactly knuckle-dragging dunces.
I know!! There are lots of good things on TV, maybe not our soaps these days though.
I started letting Vanessa watch Y&R with me a few times until her mommy caught on, and now I have to go over there to mind them. Drats!! My d-i-l says it's because of my doggies, allergies and all, but I know it's really all about television and naughty Nanny's bad habits. Snort. And besides, when both kids are asleep, Nanny folds load after load of laundry, empties the dishwasher and puts toys back in the cupboards. Can't do that if the little ones are over here. Harumph!
Oh, slightly off topic, and as if I never do this, but remember that toddler safety seat we bought for my car? Well, now it's in the trunk. We had to take Chloe into the vet's for her blood work (she's epileptic and on meds) and I wanted to take my car, not Ted's van, because I have the seat warmer thingies and the van doesn't. Chloe was so miffed that she didn't have the entire back seat to herself, she whined the whole way there, so when I took her inside, Ted removed the car seat. Chloe was much happier on the ride home.
Lol we are in the middle of finding the perfect booster seat for Bethany. I think I'm going to get the coscoe one that Floyd Likes but buy some Dora fabric to cover it and make it look like the one Beth wanted.
i dont know if it helps Kae but you can buy Dora on DVD and that might be cheaper then adding a whole new set of channels to your cable bill. And one DVD will often have like 10 shows on it.
Yes, that does help A LOT, Shelly. That's one of the things I'm going to try to find at the mall this afternoon...argh. That way as well, my d-i-l can vet it first as she had said she must do. Thanks.
OH and noggin or nogn on the cable guide has dora as well. Yup the DVD would probably be best for her. You know with the new baby, I bet she would love the Dora becomes a big sister DVD. It's really cute and Bethany watched it constantly before adn after Aiden was born.
you can get the other one on dvd too. Cailloo or however you spell that...Lots of cool shows are found on DVD...Walmart or something similar is a good place to go
I ended up actually talking to the cable company (finally got through to them) after my d-i-l said NO to DVD's - don't ask. (Montessori - need I say more?) Anyway I finally did find both Dora and Caillou on Treehouse, and the tech lady on the phone was extremely helpful as it turns out she has a three year old who watches and told me exactly how to find them. She understood that it was like finding a needle in a haystack. So I programmed my DVR for both and found Elmo's World too which I thought might be acceptable as well.
Turns out all of Nickelodeon here is scooped up under the Treehouse Channel - as if I'd have figured that one out on my own, considering we never watch it, had never heard of it, and it's way up in the 200's on the channel selector.
I'm done for today. That mall trip with husband didn't go too well as we lost each other twice in the crowds, and cell phones don't work well in there. And there's a little pile of mystery doo doo at my back door, inside it, just by the runner. It's much too small to be doggie do and too large for squirrel. I'll address that later. Geez.
I don't know what that pile of black doo was. I picked it up with Kleenexes and plopped it in the toilet, watched it sink like stones and flushed it down. We haven't noticed any visitors, so it remains a mystery best forgotten. Maybe it was mud from an elf shoe.
As for Dora, it was vetoed; something about phallic cacti and a baby jaguar. Sigh.
Uh, okay. I'd hate to expose a child to a cartoon cactus and baby jaguar! Then again, what do I know? I just let Jackson watch Talladega Nights. He was screaming for it, so I said, what the crap. Who cares? He's smart, and he knows what's right and wrong.
Wow ummmm wow .. no Dora .. ouch!!! Poor lil thing. Can't she just weed through the ones with caci and oh geesh it sounds like you've got a bit of a bundle there. I guess if she's really picky the best t programming would be found on Sprout. It's all pre-school all the time. They air all of PBS' line up for young children. Angeling Ballerina is so cute, it has caillou, Kipper, Sesame street, the Berenstein Bears, Sagwa, Thomas the Train, Pigglywinks, and tons of other cute shows.
Jolene watches Sprout at night, she likes to watch "the good night show". And I like it because I don't have to worry about what she is watching. And thats sad about Dora, isn't the jaguar on Diego? Dora does have a talking monkey and I have read complaints about Swiper the Fox. Oh well, Jolene still loves it and I think that it teaches her, so thats good for me.
Your daughter in law should like Cailloo, its pretty clean cut
