English Chitchat, let's go!!

[kara71]

Entertainment on car journeys: can be tricky. We usually drive during the day and take frequent breaks. Boy has books, CDs and as a last resort, my Iphone. He gets snacks, which he doesn't usually get. Last year he helped us finding the way on a map

[Mrs. Bee]

And looking sooo much forward to the WHY phase with Mr. Curious... not? I think I better start brushing up general knowledge

[Mrs. Bee]

Entertainment on car journeys: can be tricky. We usually drive during the day and take frequent breaks. Boy has books, CDs and as a last resort, my Iphone. He gets snacks, which he doesn't usually get. Last year he helped us finding the way on a map

That's an idea... but little man is still a bit too small I guess. We drove through the night and he did sleep quite some. Do you have one of these DVD sets for the car to keep him entertained? I never saw the value of them until now

[kara71]

No, we haven't got one of those. But maybe we' ll have to get one at some stage. He looked funny and really important, when he was readingthe map. He managed to work out the different types of roads.

Language: he wants to talk to his english relatives, doesn't he. Hubby uses skype a lot to speak to his brother. And our family language is senglish. I noticed that boy sometimes uses a more german pronounciation when speaking with my mum. I hope he'll keep his english accent, though

[kara71]

Sometimes I just have to tell him to shut up and take a nap so time goes faster. He sometimes does that

[Mrs. Bee]

I have to try that Somehow, I don't think it will work though... the first answer is most always NO.
Our family language is English too (hubbys German is crap ), so I guess he'll pick it up fast enough. I am curious about his accent though. Naughty comes out perfect
Though after listening to some of the English programmes on telly I'll need a translator soon too. They are all well fit TOWIE anyone??

[swissalicious]

Our family language is english too. 1st i dont have anyone else to talk in english dont want to lose it again. it got bad already since living here.
2nd hubby understands a lot of swiss german but talking isnt his strength...
entertainment: princess i still happy with books and dollies. her tiny car has to come everywhere though. and as she is in the why-phase she defo won't get bored lol

[katreseke]

@ entertainment in the car: I was never in favour of DVD's in the car, untill a friend (with older twins) said that it's the only really good thing you can have if you have to travel a whole day in a car. When the twins were 2 years old, they had car DVD-sets with 2 screens on special offer in Mediamarkt. So I went and bought them. And I really must say that they are worth their weight in gold! We drive about 3 or 4 times a year to Belgium (minimum 8 hours in the car), once a year to Tessin (4 hours drive) and once a year to Italy (also about 8 hours drive). Each time, the children watch films nearly the whole time and the trips are relatively relaxed. We loooooove our dvd player in the car

@ family language: I speak Flemish with the kids (hubby understands what we say), hubby speaks swiss-german with the kids (I understand what they say ) and me and hubby speak English together (little ones understand most of it).

@ me: quite busy at the moment:
- Saturday we leave on a skiing holiday.
- I finally got my Swiss passport
- as of the first of march, we officially became owners of a house

[kara71]

TOWIE: had to google

[Mrs. Bee]

TOWIE - not much to miss in my opinion.
Wow you've been busy!!!

[Mrs. Bee]

Do any of you know if something like this exists in Switzerland? www.meadopenfarm.co.uk
Been there, loved it!!

[swissalicious]

@mrs bee

Have a look here: http://www.ausflugsziele.ch/schweiz/aus ... =bauernhof

doesnt look half as much fun as the mead open farm but i guess it's similar. there's other farms as well...

[Mrs. Bee]

It looks nice, but really: a fun indoor playground or something equally fun for kids is so difficult to find here. I guess in England it's a necessity because of the weather

Anyway: Igglepiggle is Piddlepiddle in our house

[kara71]

It looks nice, but really: a fun indoor playground or something equally fun for kids is so difficult to find here. I guess in England it's a necessity because of the weather

Anyway: Igglepiggle is Piddlepiddle in our house

Bigger crowds to attract in Britain, I suppose. There seems to be a lot more on offer across there.

Isn't your boy scared of the finishing scene of night garden? Ours used to cry.


@katreseke: congratulations on the passport and the house. What's the house like? Will you move soon? Is it in the same village where you live now? I'm curious

[Mrs. Bee]

No, he likes boats, so he's all excited about it.

[swissalicious]

Princess loves igglepiggle and everything else of nightgarden lol
i hate it...

@indoor playgrounds
surely there's something attracting in switzerland?! I don't know any at all, as where I live...we don't have anything for kids...

[Mrs. Bee]

There is an indoor playground not too far from where we live, but haven't managed it yet. Heard mixed results, so I'll have to judge for myself.

Night garden: can't stand it! It's torture, seriously.. only topped by waybuloos. Who comes up with this rubbish??? And hubby is not helping by sitting next to little man and giving everybody different (and rude) names
Little man adores Rosie (everything's Rosie), and this I actually quite like.

[swissalicious]

lol same with us.... haha

rosie, love it! this actually teaches you something about friendship. but i still think little ones a tiny bit too small to really understand the message.

I like strawberry -. shame its not on at the moment..

and i am a huge fan of the good old pingu and co
"Guetnachtgschichtli" is on again on SF soon i heard.... so i guess it's gonna end in a fight between hubby and me on which bed time story princess can watch lol

[kara71]

Luckily boy no longer likes to watch night garden or waybuloo. I don't see the point in them, either. He's got his two or three favourite programmes on cbeebies, but doesn't have to watch them, if he's too busy playing.

Just have to share a layground episode: we wanted to go for a walk yesterday, but boy met some kids, he'd not met before, in the playground and wantedto hang around. They started playong together so boy decided to tell them his best English joke in English!! You should have seen the little girls face. And our boy couldn't understand why she didn't like his joke.

[Mrs. Bee]

Lost in Translation

Little man gets quite frustrated if he's telling stories to his Grandpa and A) Grandpa is hard of hearing and B) Grandpa doesn't understand Swiss German...