Department of Redundancy Department

I never quite got a full grasp on just how much children like repetition until my daughter hit the toddler years and actually started paying attention to her surroundings. This repetition is mostly found in learning, in television shows, in movies... especially in movies.  Put that sucker on repeat and it will soon become a fast favorite and a must have in your home.  As a mother to a 2 year old toddler, I'm going to give you one piece of advice:

Choose which television show and/or movie carefully.

Because you are going to have to watch it again, and again, and again.  And again.  There will be brief moments of bliss when your child suddenly attaches on to a new found favorite, and you get a day of reprieve, watching this new, different movie, that is blissfully not the one you have watched on repeat for the past three months.  But by day 2, I promise you, that movie will be just as dreaded, just as grating, and just as annoying.  So choose wisely, as your sanity is on the line.

The Princess' current movie du jour (more like month) is the Aristocats.  While this movie is thankfully short, it is chock full of songs and whiny voices (and to the mother of a toddler, you get a whiny voice enough in your day to day living, I promise).  Blindfolded and in my sleep I could spit out the cats names (Abraham de Lacy Guiseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley the alley cat), quotes ("Why, your eyes are like sapphires sparkling so bright. They make the morning radiant and light"), songs, and every single adult innuendo that will blissfully go over your child's head for many years to come ("If you want to turn me on, play your horn don't spare the thought...").

These lyrics, quotes and songs will come to you at all hours of the day.  Brushing your teeth, doing the dishes, in the middle of the night.  So please, take my advice, and choose wisely, new parents, what you let your child view and come to love and obsess over.  Because you have to "love" and obsess over it right there with them.