Sick Days.

Its been a sick day at our house today. My little baby sister has been throwing up all day and it is so sad. I have never seen one little girl throw up so many times. The day has consisted of me holding back her hair as she leans over the toilet all day. It totally stinks. My family headed out to my brother's basketball game and I stayed behind with Sophie. So hear I am doing this assignment, and she is behind me on the floor watching Dora on my laptop.

We talked a lot about children and children's media in our class and there is one part of these children's shows that I'm curious about. As I'm listening to this show behind me, every once in a while Dora will stop and ask a question like "Do you see the banana?" and then pause for like 7 seconds before she answers it for herself. Clearly this is an attempt to get kids more involved in the show. But do kids actually respond to these things? I'm curious if they are effective or not. Will kids get more involved if the characters stop and ask questions and stare at them? Or ask them to do the dance moves with them? I don't know. I would assume so, but I want to know what you guys think!
xoxo, Jessie