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Entertaining but inaccurate


This post is in reference to the play scene in the Caterpillar Room. I will say that it was extremely well-animated and certainly effective in the context of the movie. (It is perfectly clear why the toys want to be transferred to the Butterfly Room.) But as a daycare teacher, I had several questions/concerns about the scene:

1. Why were those teachers not showing the children the proper way to treat toys? I know from personal experience that toddlers are perfectly capable of gentle play IF they are given appropriate guidance. For example, they love to pretend to feed baby dolls bottles and cuddle them and sing to them. By the way, I've also seen some pretty rough play from preschool "Butterfly-age" children in the past.

2. I suppose you need to suspend disbelief b/c it's a movie, but many of those items seen - such as the Mr. Potato Head, macaroni, and glitter - would never be permitted in a toddler room due to the potential for choking, eye irritation, etc.

3. IIRC the classroom clock read 1:00 PM when the children came in from outdoors. In most daycare centers I've worked in, that is naptime/quiet time. Maybe the children were acting so crazy b/c they were sleep-deprived.

4. This may be a personal preference, but when toddlers come inside from play, I often have them sit down for a drink on hot days, or at least sit down to "regroup" until we move on to the next activity.

I still enjoyed Toy Story 3 as much as its two predecessors, but I have to admit that that one scene was a bit unnerving to me, and it doesn't necessarily reflect reality.

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it doesn't necessarily reflect reality.


It's an animated movie about toys who are alive, and you couldn't suspend your belief for one scene about rowdy toddlers with some glitter and macaroni?

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Well my wife owns a day care and from personal experience children can be little jerks also no matter what you tell them

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Oh yeah, I know firsthand that children don't always listen, but my issue w/the movie is that it didn't seem like the adults were even trying to teach the children anything. They seemed totally oblivious to the chaos around them. And like I said in my previous post, "Butterfly"-age children are not always gentle and careful. In the daycare where I work, a lot of the older children have been quite challenging lately, while the little ones have been more sedate.

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It didn't seem like the adults were even trying to teach the children anything. They seemed totally oblivious to the chaos around them.

As someone who works in a child-centric environment, I'm sure you already know that sometimes it's like that. Bad daycares. Bad schools. Bad parents. So is it really inaccurate, or just different from the standards you're accustomed to?

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