Letter to Barney

Little Bear is obsessed with Barney. We blame it on our recent trip to India when we were somewhat liberal and let him watch a Barney firehouse DVD everyday. Now the boy is hooked. His daily activities revolve around Barney, baby Bop and BJ. He probably dreams about them too because he'll wake up in the morning and say 'Lets Go..Lets go ...' and then with a wide grin announce that 'You know who says that - Barney!!'

After we got back home from our trip, we only allow him to watch 'TV' (aka Barney) on the weekends..Occasionally, he'll get some TV time when he is a good boy (read: makes us feel like we are one step closer to potty training). On one such occasion, I switched on a pre-recorded Barney episode and stepped into another room to catch up on chores. Fifteen minutes into the show, I heard loud crying from Little Bear. I rushed to see what the matter was and heard him complaining between sobs that Baby Bop was singing wrong ..What? say that again? yes..baby Bob is singing wrong and not listening to me ...OK! I said. What is the right way to sing? He tried to sing out the song and explain the 'right way'.
He was inconsolable - So, I told him..Why don't we type up a letter to Barney and ask him to explain the right song to his friends ..Little Bear liked the idea. So, we trudged upstairs and Little Bear typed up a letter on the laptop which can be pictured as 'pressing the SHIFT key for a minute followed by the G key then some dancing around the room and ending with a few random keys' ...An excerpt follows.

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“s ussssususuchkjv.ie0072yhhhfjknhwdanm,su.,mkkkufkv 5i,muivvbmnbty????????????BO O OG>GGG>G G>G>G???FFF O FOl
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Little Bear is now very happy that Barney has the letter. The rest of the household has been instructed to never, never let Little Bear watch that particular episode with the 'wrong song' lest he get this notion that we are allowed to repeat mistakes even after being told to correct them.