AIBU to think they should have checked with MN before naming their children?

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My P1 son has brought home his first Biff Chip and Kipper books.

Being from America I did not read these at his age.

AIBU to think their names are ridiculous and their mum should have check the baby name boards before naming them thus?

Wait till you get to Wilf and Wilma, Nadim and Anneena. They are the rest of the neighbourhood. Then William suddenly emerges around level 8.

I fucking forced my children to be early readers to escape Chiff, Bipp and the other one.

Dismal books.

And now I volunteer to read in school and sometimes have the same cocking story read to me 5 times in a row.

cuts off ears

Lol at the ethnic children who suddenly appear!

Wait! There's a glowing key?!

All I have is Kipper throwing a wobbly about preschool and the kids throwing their dad a party.

How long until the glowing key?

oh yes the key glows as the books get harder so it's even longer torture and the children go to castles etc.

gran is a bit of a one as well.!!!

ah 'peter and Jane' ' Peter likes cars, boys like cars, Jane likes flowers, girls like flowers'!!!

honest to God truth, circa 1974!!!

Ds is reading the book where it apparently appears according to collective MN wisdom - the Storm, he read some earlier then wanted a break. I need to know what happens. It is level blue, however it's not until the next level ? green/5 that the main adventures start. Ds determined to get through blue quickly to get onto key ones.

Glowing key appears in stage 5 (yellow). I think by then they ran out of every day stuff to write about.

I (vaguely) knew about the names because I worked in a reception class (9 years ago now!), and there was a teacher's book with the names and explanations. IIRC we photocopied the page and sent it home with the children before sending any of the books home.

Am sure the key ones would work really well if you took some psychoactive drugs.

Sorry 3bunnies, if he's on blue then he has to get through all of red too before the magic key...

Papermover- we had some of those books around school until very recently. One child refused to read the books because she thought 'Fat Pig' wasn't a very nice thing to say. Good point!

Maybe a different system Crohonically - ours is pink, red, yellow, blue, green, definitely key on next stage.

To be fair, as reading scheme books go, ORT does at least have some readable stories in it. FAR better than many other reading scheme books I've had the misfortune to have to listen to over the years.

Oh, they're book band colours, not Oxford reading tree colours.

Yes, backforgood, at least these have punctuation in, unlike Meg the Hen. How can you expect children to use full stops correctly when they don't see them in print to know how they're used?

Oh god this means playground conversations about book band colours too, doesn't it?

Fuck me P1 sucks.

The key glows when you unlock your reading. Suddenly you CAN read and then you can have all kinds of amazing adventures. Like reconcilling King Arthur's argumentative knights by telling them to 'get a round table'.

You wait. Tis awesome.

I'm 27. Biff, Chip and Kipper weren't around for me, but were for my brother I think. I don't remember any reading schemes.

Well, that's good to know Skully. Based on the mums I know I would imagine it would be a conversation for information rather than comparison, if that makes sense?

Except one, who I try to avoid...

Did no one else have Betty and Colin books?
We could read them as fast as we liked - we took them home as often as we wanted to and read them to our parents, we had to read the last one we had read to the teacher once a week as a check - and then we got to read books from the class library for the rest of the year ...(to be fair I could already read so they were easy it might not have been so good for children who were struggling)
And then later we had to read some blue and some green books then we could read whatever we liked again.
Guess we were a small school and it would be hard for the teachers to keep track of larger classes but I wish my DDs could have done that ...gone through all the magic key books as fast as possible rather than them dragging on for years one a week...read in class then read at home - even DD1 who was a really good reader (the only word she ever couldn't read in them was dinghy!) had to do that but got 'harder' books to read as well. I was trying to be enthusiastic but both my DDs found them boring- best thing that happened was DD2 was moved up a group and missed the last few ORT books ..I hate the magic key!!!!!
(although a friend who is a teacher says they are better than the reading scheme they use in their school - but how could anything be more boring and more likely to make children never want to open a book for pleasure!)

I grew up on a bizarre combination of Ginn and, I think, Little Nippers?

They're idiotic books. Surely there are better books for phonics at this level?

We had Roger Red Hat and his mates at school when i was young. I remember a school computer that had this flat light up board with different sheets you laid over it with pictures to press for the answers. They had the same characters on and i was always so excited to get turn. Not quite in the same league as class ipads and the like that schools have now!
I agree that Biff and chip are awful, i have my second child in Infant school now and starting them all again after only just finishing them made me want to put pins in my eyes. I might teach dc3 to read now (shes just 2) in the hope she doesnt need them when she starts school.