How to handle a monster
Children are funny little creatures. With it being the Christmas season, we’ve had a number of those terrible kid’s specials on the tube, and Isaac really latched on to Rudolph. It’s been years since I’ve seen it, and it hasn’t aged well (if it was ever any good at all). Anyway, Isaac got pretty creeped out about the Abominable Snowman. He’s spent the last couple of nights asking Mom and Dad to make sure all the monsters get taken to the dentist to have their teeth taken out.
And don’t get me started about the whole Frosty thing. The child-molester narrator turned out to be the worst-looking animation of Andy Griffith, a detail I’d forgotten from my youth. And did we really need a storyline where Frosty gets married? The other show that’s been on a lot is that Tom Hanks version of The Polar Express. Two words: uncanny valley.