Related Posts?

WordPress has a new feature called “Related Posts,” a culling of posts from other WordPress sites that are supposedly similar to my recent posts. I don’t find this feature particularly useful or even accurate, but one of the “related posts” caught my eye and made me want to play along –

What television, music, movie or book from your childhood are you excited about sharing with your own children?

Books — A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by E L Konigsburg, Elizabeth Gordon’s Bird Children, Flower Children, and Mother Earth’s Children, most books by Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary, probably a bunch of others I can’t remember.

Television — The Flintstones; I Love Lucy; The Jetsons; the Sid & Marty Krofft shows like Sigmund & the Sea Monsters, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, and Far Out Space Nuts; The Love Boat; Fantasy Island.

Music — anything that I loved to listen to in the 1980s. However, I know my kids won’t like it any more than I liked my parents’ favorite music. There’s also “Please Mr. Postman” by the Carpenters, because that was the first pop song I ever heard on the radio and absolutely loved; had to get a copy of it on 45.

Movie — Grease. I can’t wait to share this one with Sophia. I must have seen it a dozen times, and when one of the songs came on the radio when we were scrapping last Sunday, Lisa and I both squealed with delight. I’ve been thinking about it ever since. What girl didn’t want to be Olivia Newton John in the big scene at the end?