BEDA 2: Games of the only child

Hello everyone

It is April 2 and time for a new BEDA post. I was reading Maureen Johnson post yesterday where she talked about only children being forced to come up with ways to entertain themselves. She was thinking back on some of the games she used to invent as a child and shared with everyone so I decided to do something similar since I too am an only child and I too used to invent games and storied as a means to keep myself entertain.

You see, when you are an only child, you don't have a brother or a sister that is always or or mostly around all the time to play with therefore you are forced to be creative and invent ways to entertain yourself and keep from being bored and have nothing to do.

I don't remember inventing GAMES movies as a kid and later on pretend I was the main character and that the story was real and I was the one having those adventures. I could spend hours and hours in my imagination land.

Some of my favourite movie to recreate while in imagination land:

Annie

I must have watched that movie a thousand times, so much that I could say the lines even before the character on the screen said it.

La grenouille et la baleine

This one is french and part of the Conte pour tous series. I am sure everyone will say what is this movie, but you see I grew up in Quebec, in a smaller town where at first cable didn't get through our area, not enough people therefore not worth it. Boo. So I mainly watch french television. That movie was one of my favourite to recreate mainly because the main character had the natural tight curls that I wanted to have so I pretended I was her, she lived by the water and had a pert dolphin if you can say and could hear whales singing, and her hearing was more sensitive than most she could hear them when anyone else wouldn't.

Pas de repit pour melanie

That was another favourite and another one I liked to pretend that I was the main character and had the adventures they had. She also had a pet llama which I thought was so cute and even wished i had one for real until I found out they spit in your face that is.

The wizard of oz

That one was a classic that I pretended I arrived in the land of oz and had all those adventures.

Bach et bottine

I always tried to pretend I was Fanny, mainly because she had this pet skunk obviously it had an operation so he would not spray but I thought it was so cute, for the longest I wished I had one so much. And also because the story took place in Quebec city and I absolutely love this place.

Vincent et moi

This one was a story of a girl who loved to draw and paint, I saw myself a lot more in that character, it was a lot easier to imagine I was that character. And also it involved my favourite painter vincent van gogh, though at the time I didn't knwo that much about painters or art history.

There are a lot more I am sure but I cannot remember them all.

That is the colourful a d imaginative life of the only child, having to invent ways to entertain yourself.

I could spend hours and hour in my room or outdoors, inventing, pretending recreating the stories I saw in the movies with me as the main character. And was quiet for hours, so much that my mom had to come and check to see if I was still there or if I was ok.

BEDA: day 2 down and off to a good start.

See you tomorrow